article_snippet: When authorities discovered Adelaide house of horrors child abuse case in suburban Adelaide in 2008 five children living in the house at Adelaide's Parafield Gardens were so malnourished five children living in the house at Adelaide's Parafield Gardens brains had shrunk,
article_snippet: five children living in the house at Adelaide's Parafield Gardens had open sores and were suffering from scabies.
article_snippet: The South Australian Housing Trust home was uncovered by authorities in 2008 after one of the young boys was taken to the Lyell McEwan Hospital after fainting from malnutrition and hypothermia .
article_snippet: The children, who were underweight, had open sores on The children, who were underweight legs, ulcers on The children, who were underweight feet and were infected with scabies.
article_snippet: Examinations showed The children, who were underweight brains had shrunk from the deprivation to basic nutrients, according to The Advertiser.
article_snippet: Photos of the squalid conditions were released by police and detailed the shocking living environment the children were forced to live in.
article_snippet: The South Australian Housing Trust home was uncovered by authorities in 2008 after one of the young boys was taken to the Lyell McEwan Hospital after fainting from malnutrition and hypothermia.
article_snippet: Human waste was found amid the piles of clothes, garbage and other refuse in the house where the children were living in shocking conditions .
highlights_snippet: Police discovered Adelaide house of horrors child abuse case when one of the young boys was taken to hospital after fainting from malnutrition .
  
highlights_snippet: five children living in the house at Adelaide's Parafield Gardens were found to be living among faeces and infestations of flies, maggots, and cockroaches .