# Siders 16 Kids: Did Ohio Just Silence The Wrong People? Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/hidden-killers-live-daily-true-crime-news-breakdowns-5650841/siders-16-kids-did-ohio-just-silence-the-wrong-people Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/hidden-killers-live-daily-true-crime-news-breakdowns-5650841/siders-16-kids-did-ohio-just-silence-the-wrong-people.md Podcast: [Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns](https://stenobird.com/podcast/hidden-killers-live-daily-true-crime-news-breakdowns-5650841) Published: 2026-07-18T02:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://audioboom.com/posts/8929087 Audio file: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8929087.mp3?modified=1784226632&sid=5078367&source=rss Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/hidden-killers-live-daily-true-crime-news-breakdowns-5650841/episodes/siders-16-kids-did-ohio-just-silence-the-wrong-people Duration seconds: 1098 ## Resource Ohio's attorney general described what investigators found in the Siders home as pure evil. The sheriff said his county's livestock were kept in better conditions than those sixteen children. Both officials saw the inside of that house with their own eyes. A Vinton County judge just told them they cannot talk about it. The gag order covers the AG's office, the prosecutor, the sheriff, the clerk, and defense counsel. It was filed by Gary Siders Junior's attorney citing inflammatory language. The judge agreed the statements could prejudice potential jurors. What the order also does is halt the public flow of information about how sixteen children went undetected for eighteen years β€” right when state legislators started asking the hardest questions. Gallia County filed truancy complaints against the family in 2021 after six children missed an entire school year. The court terminated every case three months later. Gary Senior was released from custody because Vinton County couldn't cover his medical costs. Ohio approved a million dollars in emergency funding for the children. The officials who uncovered these facts and shared them with the public are the ones now prohibited from speaking. The institutions that never found those kids have not been required to explain anything. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/hidden-killers-live-daily-true-crime-news-breakdowns-5650841/episodes/siders-16-kids-did-ohio-just-silence-the-wrong-people/transcription-requests` β€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/hidden-killers-live-daily-true-crime-news-breakdowns-5650841/siders-16-kids-did-ohio-just-silence-the-wrong-people.md` β€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.