Covered from head-to-toe in protective gear, an "aftermath company" removed more than 20 boxes of hazardous materials from the Blackstone, Massachusetts, house of squalor Monday.
"Body fluids, and contamination, feces on the wall, ceilings and the rugs and mattresses all has now been removed," Bill Walsh from the town's Board of Health said.
NECN is also getting an inside look at photos from behind the walls at 23 St. Paul St., where a marijuana growing and distribution operation existed in the basement, police allege.
Some of the photos show the clutter inside.
On Aug. 28th, three infants were found dead inside the vermin-infested home, along with dead cats and dogs, piles of dirty diapers and other filth, according to officials. Four other children, the two youngest covered in feces and maggots, were removed from the house and are now in child welfare custody.
Town officials say the work inside the home will be ongoing.
"Tomorrow, once they leave here, we'll be bringing back an extermination company again to go back in and de-bug the whole house," said Town Administrator Daniel Keyes.
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Thirty-one-year-old Erika Murray, who has told police she's the mother of all the children, now faces a number of charges including fetal death concealment.
According to a new police report, her alleged boyfriend and father of the children, Raymond Rivera, has now been nabbed on numerous marijuana charges for that basement grow operation. The report says Murray claimed Rivera spent most of the time in the basement, she didn't know about the marijuana, and that they lived in the house for about 10 years.
It also says Murray's older children told police they didn't know who the younger children in the home belonged to.
When Murray was asked by police why she allegedly lied to her other children, Murray told them, "...it was because she wasn't planning on having these two younger children and knew she couldn't afford to have them."
NECN has also acquired a notice of violation, sent to the owner of the home, Raymond Rivera's sister. She's been ordered to pay the cost of the junk removal de-contamination, and police overtime costs, which town officials estimated right now to be at $20,000.
The investigation is still ongoing and many questions remain unanswered including how old the infants were, how they died and if more charges will be filed against the parents of the children.
