Vinton County

There's a lot of stuff in Ohio, by the way.

And one time when I went up there for an event in Chillicothe, I went out to Vinton County and went to Moonville.

Have you ever been to the ghost town out there? No.

The only way into it is through the old rail tunnel.

So I was like, cool, ate those really fast.

Um, and so we go, so we, we go do intake and, uh, they leave and we head down to Vinton County, middle of nowhere, uh, Um, and I sleep the entire, the entire ride down there, wake up and they do the whole search, the squat and cough, everything.

Um, and, uh, so I remember I'm sitting there and they're like, there's so many rules.

Like you'd only have coffee and I'm not a big coffee drinker, but at the time that was like the hot commodity.

That's what speaking in tongues was.

There is a heavenly language, but I don't know.

Um, but, uh, so the refuge is 13 months in, uh, the first phase is Vinton County or it was Vinton County.

Now it's up, it's up in here in Columbus.

Holy shit.

Vinton County Sheriff Ryan Cain said that the conditions were so poor that most of our livestock was kept in better conditions than the children.

Yeah.

Ohio Attorney General said investigators were concerned that they could have been dealing with the death of one or more children had authorities arrived even a day later.

I know.

Right near Vinton County and right near Ross County.

And to have, and to have, um-

I had to come where these three counties come together with that.

Now, that win over Fairland goes a long way for them because Fairland's just going to keep getting them points along the way.

But – Problem for Vinton County is the three teams directly ahead of them will most likely win.

The one that jumps out at me that could lose is number nine, Ridgewood, placed six and three, Garraway.

That one, if – That's going to be a big score for some of our local teams because if Ridgewood wins, they control their industry and their end.

Congratulations to the Tornadoes.

On the Ohio girls' side, I know that they graduated one of the best to ever do it, but Zoe Wainer of Athens leads the Bulldogs to another – Yeah,

just past Vinton County here.

Just barely in that kind of the theme of the day.

Well, she's either wanting to coach them, and, uh, uh, tell them what to say or tell them what not to say.

And, uh, she also may be probing for how much trouble she's in, and whether or not, uh, the state's gonna seek temporary or permanent custody of the children, or whether, um, she has to have herself seen some of the coverage on the Vinton County case here in Ohio.

And she may be thinking, "Am I in as much trouble as those folks down there that, uh, several of them are still in jail months later now."

Yeah, and it, it is amazing given the Vinton County case.

I mean, there are similarities here, but at least these children, and thank goodness they were, they were in school.

Uh, so that's how this came to light.

Just absolutely awful.

Uh, so do you see this case, uh, progressing? Do we see additional charges, in your view, based on what we know now? Because it seems to me that we are just scratching the surface as far as this family is concerned and as far as the allegations of child endangering and neglect are concerned.

What we saw was not necessarily a cage, like an actual big-sized dog cage, but it was, there was like a cage that kind of folds, you know, the big cages that fold, and there was no door onto a room, a bedroom, and they used that cage to cover the doorway.

We just saw this case in Vinton County with child endangerment.

Can you speak to these kinds of issues, child endangerment cases, and any advice for the public?

The advice I would give the public, especially for the school districts, You know, if you see children who look like they're malnourished, they're maybe not clean, you know, it comes back to see something, say something.

I mean, you have to speak up so we can help some of these kids.

And that was again, Chris McFarland reporting and both those adults, they are now facing criminal charges.

But again, this takes us back down to Vinton County.

This is not the first time in recent months we've been hearing about serious child endangerment cases.

Shockingly, the investigation that led to Gary Siders, Jr. and his wife, Elizabeth Siders, started months earlier with members of their own family that did not live on Omer Street.

The investigation actually started in November 2025, and the Vinton County prosecutor said it involved two men, Brandon Henderson and Josh Saunders.

The two are related to the Siders, but didn't live with them.

23-year-old Josh Saunders is the nephew of Gary Jr. Josh is the oldest son of Gary Jr.'s older sister, Virginia Siders.

Okay.

Okay.

You've been indicted by a Vinton County grand jury for various sex-related offenses.

Okay? We're just here to take you into custody.