US police find 11 starving children in New Mexico compound

The neighborhood sheriff's office said the kids, matured 1 to 15, had no shoes, were wearing clothes and "looked like Third World evacuees".

Five grown-ups were found at the scene, including two vigorously equipped men.

Police looked through the site in the wake of getting a message that read: "We are starving and need sustenance and water."

It isn't clear how the gathering wound up at the compound in Amalia.

Police portrayed the compound as a little underground trailer secured by plastic, with no running water or power.

Taos County Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe disclosed to ABC News the kids were eager, parched and unsanitary.

"I've been a cop for a long time. I've never observed anything like this. Unimaginable," he said.

"They were thin, their ribs appeared, they were in extremely poor cleanliness and exceptionally frightened."


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