article_snippet: County Prosecutor Nicholas Iarocci said two juvenile girls and a mentally handicapped adult male also abused and neglected two juvenile girls and a mentally handicapped adult male adopted son, now 21, who is mentally disabled.
article_snippet: County Prosecutor Nicholas Iarocci said Wednesday that the couple 'repeatedly and harshly' beat the girls and older son with a paddle that police found to be stained with blood.
article_snippet: County Prosecutor Nicholas Iarocci could not explain why a younger adopted son, now 13, was not abused.
article_snippet: Indictments allege the abuse occurred over a two-year period starting in September 2011.
article_snippet: The sisters did not mention the abuse until after The sisters were charged in an accident, and then The sisters told The sisters probation officer, according to the prosecutor. '
article_snippet: To be honest with you, as The sisters told me the story, it was hard to hold back some of the tears,' County Prosecutor Nicholas Iarocci told Fox 8 Cleveland.
article_snippet: the couple adopted six children about 11 years ago but the abuse began only after two older boys left the family home after turning 18, County Prosecutor Nicholas Iarocci said.
article_snippet: We can't explain why the couple did what the couple did and when County Prosecutor Nicholas Iarocci started,' Larocci said.
article_snippet: the abuse inflicted psychological damage on the two girls, but the abuse and the abuse older adopted brother have thrived in foster care, County Prosecutor Nicholas Iarocci said. '
article_snippet: County prosecutor Nicholas Iarocci, pictured, said County prosecutor Nicholas Iarocci, pictured cried when the two girls detailed the two girls abuse and County prosecutor Nicholas Iarocci, pictured believes the system failed when the two girls put the children in the couple's home .
article_snippet: the children had been previously placed in the couple's home by Ashtabula County Children Services following background checks - but County Prosecutor Nicholas Iarocci said County Prosecutor Nicholas Iarocci didn't know how County Prosecutor Nicholas Iarocci had happened. '
article_snippet: I can't explain how the children ultimately were adopted by them - how the children were originally fostered by these folks,' County Prosecutor Nicholas Iarocci told Fox 8. '