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Zagreb, May 19 (CP) – Three boys of whom the oldest is just eight years old are living in awful conditions without water and electricity and a mother who is unable to care for them due to a mental condition in a hut near the coastal port of Sibenik.

The hut, which serves as the children’s home, has no windows or doors, no running water and harbours an open sewage hole.

The mother has had some mental difficulties, which make her speech impaired, so the boys are hardly able to talk, while the father is mostly absent.

Although the community tried to help the family and the Caritas organisation built the hut they are living in now, but the family was unable to maintain sustainable living conditions.

None of the boys are going to school and neighbours have been reporting them for unsocial behaviour like throwing stones at them.

The social services have been informed of the situation two years ago and the local court has introduced proceedings for the boys to be put into care.