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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) A mother and her boyfriend are now facing charges after they were accused of recently leaving four children in unlivable circumstances in a home on Charles Street in the Knoxville neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Investigators confirm that the mother, India McKnight, and her boyfriend, Earl Kennedy are responsible. According to the criminal complaints, it started with a sexual abuse investigation in August of 2025 involving the boyfriend. The officers responding to this incident noted that the four children lived in the home, where the conditions were deplorable. There was allegedly no bed or even a mattress for them to sleep on, twenty cats, their feces and urine everywhere, no food, just one box of macaroni and cheese in a kitchen cabinet, and no heat or hot water since April of 2025. McKnight and Kennedy are facing multiple charges, which includes endangering the welfare of children.