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(NewsNation) — Marriage and birth records reviewed by The Columbus Dispatch show at least three members of the Siders family wed while still teenagers themselves — including the woman now accused, alongside three relatives, of confining 16 children in filthy conditions inside a Vinton County home.
Elizabeth Russell was just 15 when she wed Gary Siders Jr. in West Virginia in 2008. By May of that year, two months after the wedding, she had given birth to the first of what would become 18 children over the next 17 years.
She isn't the only young bride in the family.
Ohio mom accused in 'House of Horrors' case seeks release, reunification
(NewsNation) — Marriage and birth records reviewed by The Columbus Dispatch show at least three members of the Siders family wed while still teenagers themselves — including the woman now accused, alongside three relatives, of confining 16 children in filthy conditions inside a Vinton County home.
Elizabeth Russell was just 15 when she wed Gary Siders Jr. in West Virginia in 2008. By May of that year, two months after the wedding, she had given birth to the first of what would become 18 children over the next 17 years.
She isn't the only young bride in the family.
Ohio mom accused in 'House of Horrors' case seeks release, reunification
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