Siders 16 Kids: Why the Grandfather Won't Face a Jury

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews · Sep 16, 2026 · 16m

On September 9th, Gary Siders Senior was ruled incompetent to stand trial in Vinton County, Ohio. The seventy-three-year-old patriarch was facing sixteen counts of child endangerment after investigators found sixteen children in a single room of his family's home in June. The children were living in filth. Some couldn't speak. The floor was rotted through. Seven were hospitalized. He's already out of jail. His attorney says the case is effectively over. But the real question in this case was never just about Gary Senior. Gallia County CPS documented these children's conditions twice — in 2020…