Police rescue 458 children from horror home

Police who raided a group home in Mexico have rescued 458 children who were forced to beg for money and suffered sexual abuse while being held against their will in filthy conditions.

Mexico’s top prosecutor, attorney general Jesus Murillo Karam, said police also rescued 138 adults from the Great Family group home in the city of Zamora in the western state of Michoacan.

The group home residents were kept in deplorable conditions, fed rotten food and made to sleep on the floor among rats, ticks and fleas and many of them were never allowed to leave the premises, Mr Murillo Karam told a news conference attended by top national investigators and Michoacan governor Salvador Jara.