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As Josh White and Jennifer Buske of The Washington Post report:

“The situation was as disturbing as it was cruel: three girls, trapped in a bedroom tainted with urine and feces, a piece of drywall nailed across the door. The people responsible, police say, were their parents.

“The neighbors could not wake the couple because they were out cold, the records say. Officers said they found prescription narcotics, smoking devices and needles in the room.”

It looks from the pictures like a mainstream, middle-class house in Bristol, Va., like one of those things safe and snug built recently into a cul-de-sac in the new exurbs of D.C. on land that was only recently grass, cattle and farmers newly born again to Jesus.

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