Feb 23, 2007 8:16 am US/Eastern
'House Of Horrors' Custody Battle Heads To Court
Children Found Living In Squalor With Their Mother
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (CBS) ―
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The house of filth is now at the center of a bitter custody battle.
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Hundreds of bottles and cups filled with urine were found scattered among the incredibly filthy house that Raymond Young's three daughters lived in.
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A Long Island father searching for his daughters instead found a house of horrors. On Friday morning he's headed to court to get custody of the girls he hadn't seen in years.
it's a tale of two homes. Inside the first home is a picture of filth and squalor. In the second house, there is cleanliness and sanity. And stuck in the middle are three young girls whose lives could possibly change when a Suffolk County judge decides where they should live.
"Urine in bottles, no plumbing, no toilet," Raymond Young told CBS 2. "There was just feces all over, [it's the] most horrible situation you could ever imagine."
"I'm hopeful the system will get the kids to some safe environment," said Young, who is fighting for custody of the children.
Earlier this week, Young found his estranged wife, Deborah, and the couple's three daughters, ages 10, 12 and 14, living in nightmare conditions in a house in Lindenhurst. Police and Child Protective Services have seen it for themselves.
The house is blanketed in waste, including bottles of urine, feces and piles of soiled toilet paper.
Young compared the living conditions of his daughters to a war camp, calling them "prisoners."
He used to live in the Nevada Street home in Lindenhurst with his wife, Deborah. But during their bitter six year separation, he says he had not seen the girls or their filthy and unhealthy living conditions.
"We had our issues, but nothing to this extreme. Maybe something happened, she got sick or mental," Young said.
Raymond Young ordered to stay away from the children amid allegations of sex abuse, which were never proved.
He now wants to raise the girls with him in his Babylon home, which is complete with playrooms and a swimming pool.
His ex-wife, who had taken the girls to her parent's house in Windham, was ordered by a judge to bring the girls back to Long Island.
Raymond Young's attorney dismisses the chance that the girls would be sent back to live with their mother.
According to Joseph Quatela, Raymond Young's attorney, said, "Absolutely not. We all saw the condition the house was in. It's a hovel."
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