Inbred children unable to speak or see after living in gruesome incest cult

The discovery of a shocking incest cult hidden within a family home sent shockwaves through those who discovered the deeply distressing situation.

A profoundly disturbing inbreeding ring, established by two great-great grandparents in an isolated farming valley, was exposed after evading any intervention for years.

Their children were found to be severely disabled and incapable of speaking or seeing as a consequence of relentless inbreeding. Social services were appalled upon discovering 38 people living in deplorable conditions, all related to one another.

The children, subjected to extreme abuse, were so profoundly disabled that they were unable to communicate. After being placed in foster care, their adoptive families reported deeply troubling sexualised behaviour.

In a disturbing development, one of the parents subsequently shared a post on Facebook with the sickening caption “Love Makes a Family”, as reported by the New Zealand Herald, reports the Irish Mirror.

The ordeal for the Colts, a pseudonym assigned by the court, began with June and Tim’s marriage in New Zealand in 1966 before they relocated to Australia. The couple had seven children, with Martha being the youngest.

Each of the 38 children within the group endured prolonged sexual abuse at the hands of siblings, cousins, fathers, an uncle, and a grandfather, spanning four generations. The Colt family first came under official scrutiny in June 2010.

Over the following two years, authorities submitted seven “risk of significant harm reports” focused predominantly on neglect, medical neglect, and truancy issues.

In 2010, social services eventually gained entry to the camp where the family lived. The location was without even the most fundamental facilities, including running water and lavatories.

The children were incapable of combing their hair, possessed no understanding of how to use toilet paper, couldn’t brush their teeth, and consumed food with their hands.

The caravan’s kitchen space was encrusted with filth, vegetables were abandoned to decay in the fridge, and the bed linen appeared to be heavily soiled with grime. A kangaroo was found sleeping on one of the children’s beds.

Numerous children exhibited obvious physical abnormalities, with misaligned eyes, low-set ears, and appearances indicating they were decades older than their actual age. Only Rhonda’s five year old daughter was determined not to have been fathered by a blood relative.

All other children were the offspring of incest.

Despite genetic testing establishing otherwise, Betty, Martha, and Raylene all persistently deny that their children are the consequence of incest.

Three of the girls, aged seven, eight, and nine, claimed their uncle, Charlie Colt, who resided on the property when the children were removed, was also their father. The nine-year-old also alleged that Charlie Colt had had sexual relations with her.

It is believed that family patriarch Timothy Colt, who died in 2009, fathered children with both one of his daughters and one of his granddaughters.

Five of the boys who were removed also confessed to torturing animals on the farm, including puppies and cats, and admitted to mutilating the genitals of animals.

Initially, the family complied with a request from social services in June 2012 to improve their living conditions, but by July, police were forced to remove 12 children, all cousins aged between five and 15 years, after it was established they faced a serious risk of harm should they remain at the property.

The children taken into care will remain there until they reach the age of 18. The case came to public attention when the children’s court of New South Wales chose to make its ruling public.

In 2021, during the trials of other Colt family members, evidence emerged suggesting that Martha’s father, Tim Colt, may also be the father of his daughter Betty’s 13 children.

Martha, who was known to share a “marital bed” with her brother Charlie, had five children with him. Her trial heard that her children were likely fathered by Charlie, her own father Tim, and another brother.

Three family members, Roderick, Martha, and Derek Colt, lodged intentions to appeal in 2020, but these have since lapsed. Of the 80 original charges against eight Colts – which included incest, child sexual abuse, indecency against a child, and perjury – many were subsequently dropped.

Charlie Colt, who originally faced 27 charges, was cleared of two counts and acquitted, with the outstanding charges subsequently dropped. His brother Roderick, however, was convicted of raping his niece and half-sister Petra.

Throughout the trial, it came to light that Petra was in fact his half-sister, having been born to Roderick’s sister Betty and their father Tim.

Despite all eight family members being remanded following their arrest in 2018, only four have been handed custodial sentences.

Martha, together with her elder sisters Betty and Rhonda, and Betty’s daughter Raylene, faced charges for lying about the paternity of their children. In a 2018 Facebook post, Betty Colt shared a photograph of herself alongside two female relatives, bearing the caption “Love Makes a Family”.

Rhonda was handed a 14-month intensive corrections order (ICO) for perjury, which concluded in 2021. Raylene was similarly given a 16-month ICO for perjury, which also came to an end in 2021.

Betty was found guilty on four counts of perjury, one count of lying under oath, and one count of perverting the course of justice, resulting in a 14-month prison term.

Her maximum sentence of two years and four months is due to expire in August. Martha, the youngest of the sisters, admitted to five counts of perjury and one count of making a false statement under oath.