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On Tuesday in Denver District Court the father of the four boys, 67-year-old Wayne Sperling, was sentenced to five years in prison for keeping his sons in a tiny Denver apartment covered in layers of cat and human feces. Decomposing animals were found near the squalid mattress the four boys shared.
None of the boys — ages 2, 4, 5 and 6 at the time — could speak or recognize their names when they were removed from the apartment in September 2013.
They didn't know how to eat a sandwich or recognize an apple as food, said Deputy District Attorney Anita Drasan.
All four boys have been placed in the same foster home and have made dramatic improvements, but they still have "long battles before them," Drasan said. More Strange News
