FROM DAILY MAIL: This is the heart-stopping moment children locked in a Pennsylvania house of horrors clambered out of a window on to a roof, as neighbors told of the ‘neglect’ they allegedly suffered in the years before their parents’ arrest last week.
In shocking video footage obtained by the Daily Mail, three young boys can be seen running across an old shingle porch roof after climbing out of their bedroom window – with no parents in sight.
In the video, shot in April last year, one boy is seen shimmying across the corner of the sloped roof before scaling a much more steeply pitched roof, which leads round to the back of the house.
In a second video obtained by the Daily Mail and filmed a day earlier, two of the boys can be seen on the roof as one carefully peers into another bedroom window, before the other joins him and attempts to pry it open.
Both times the kids gave up and went back to their rooms.
Horrifically, the boys were among five children, four boys and a girl aged between five and 14, found living with “sickening” neglect in a dungeon-like bedroom.
James and Carly Kahl, their parents, were arrested last week over the living conditions in the home, which included keeping the children in a squalid bedroom with “no beds, boarded-up windows, feces covered on the bedroom walls, fleas, limited clothing and food,” according to a criminal complaint obtained by Daily Mail. One child was even punished with a stun gun.
James Kahl “locked the children’s bedroom door from the outside trapping the children inside their rooms throughout part of the day and all the night, the complaint states. “This room functioned as a dungeon with video cameras hardwired to the father’s room.
Couple charged after children found living in 'deplorable conditions' resembling 'dungeon': https://t.co/oAisV0J710 pic.twitter.com/canPpXddfD
— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) September 5, 2025
They were locked in a dungeon inside a house of horrors. But incredible footage shows five kids' daring acts while their parents were out… and it left neighbors speechless https://t.co/Dd2ndmXqw9
— Daily Mail (@DailyMail) September 8, 2025
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