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A mother arrested after police rescued more than a dozen children from a so-called Ohio "house of horrors" this summer is facing new charges after authorities learned she allegedly had inappropriate sexual contact with a minor.
\n\nElizabeth Siders, 33, appeared in Vinton County Common Pleas Court on Sept. 16 to be arraigned on two counts of sexual battery and two counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor after her arrest for child neglect, court papers reviewed by USA TODAY show.
\n\nSiders pleaded not guilty to the new charges as well as to 19 counts of child endangerment in what prosecutors called an "evil" case, after officials found the children living in "deplorable conditions" while executing a search warrant June 30 at their home.
\n\nElizabeth Siders is one of four family members charged in the disturbing case centered around a home in the small village of Hamden in Vinton County, about 80 miles southeast of Columbus.
\n\nHer husband, Gary L. Siders Jr., 37, and his parents − Gary L. Siders Sr., 72, and Christina Siders, 68 − are also charged with multiple counts of felony child endangerment in the case. Police arrested all four in June.
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