Children of horrifying incest 'cult' with four generations of in-breeding found living deformed, filthy and mute in scenic valley

• Case in New South Wales, Australia, described as one of worst in history
• Brothers, sisters, uncles and aunts had sex with each other for decades
  
• Children were severely disabled with one girl, nine, unable to read or talk
  
• She was unable to bathe herself and did not know what toilet paper was
  

By RICHARD SHEARS

PUBLISHED: 04:44 GMT, 11 December 2013 | UPDATED: 11:01 GMT, 11 December 2013

The dark, disturbing secrets of a picturesque Australian valley where unwashed children born from generations of incest lived with physical deformities in a 'cult' of 40 adults and youngsters emerged today.

Incapable of intelligible speech, some of the children had oddly-formed features as the result of being born to parents who were themselves related.

Brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts had sex with one another over four generations, raising childen in squalid conditions who themselves grew up to become intimate and have more inbred children.

The children found living in filth in sheds and broken down caravans had numerous disabilities from their inbred births, including a boy with a walking impairment and severe psoriasis, another with hearing and sight problems and yet another boy whose eyes were misaligned.

A nine-year-old girl, who could not hear or write and had fragmented and stunted speech, was unable to bathe or dry herself and did not know how to use a toilet or what toilet paper was.

The shocking discovery of the family's depraved life in the valley, lying south west of Sydney, were reminiscent of the inbred hillbillies featured in the movie Deliverance.

Sickening details of generations of child abuse were published today by Sydney's Daily Telegraph, drawing on a judgement from the New South Wales Children's Court which, in a rare step, agreed to make its findings public.

The name of the hidden valley has been kept secret and the family has been given the pseudonym Colt in order to protect the identity of the minors.

But details of the debased lives of adults and children have been released because it is understood the court felt the nation should know about the worst case of incest it had ever heard.

Across four generations of intimate relations, the family moved around the country, from South Australia, to Victoria, Western Australia and then back across the continent to the fertile valley south of Sydney.

The debauched lives of the current generation of adults might never have been found if residents of a nearby town had not reported that there were children living in the hills who had not been attending school.

In the nearby town, the name of which has been suppressed, one local resident said people used to make jokes that if anyone came from that valley 'you'd be inbred'.

The man told the Sydney paper that on occasions two women with 'about ten children' would emerge from a car that had interstate plates, buy something in the shops and leave.

'They were never clean looking,' said the man. And there was 'nothing' on the blocks of land where the family lived - 'no electricity, no water, just scrub.'

FULL STORY: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2521752/Children-incest-cul...