Four generations of incest

Four generations of intimate relations among the Colts had taken place in South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia and finally come to NSW.

The five family groups comprised of sisters, Rhonda, 47, Martha, 33, and Betty Colt, 46, who slept every night with her brother, Charlie, and two of Betty's daughters who each had children who proved to be from unions of related parents.

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Betty's son Bobby Colt, 15, had a walking impairment, severe Psoriasis and needed urgent dental work.
His speech was not understandable. He wet and soiled the bed and his learning ability was at kindergarten level.
Martha's sons Albert, 15, and Jed, 14, were similarly challenged with their speech, personal hygiene and lack of dentistry.
Betty's 14-year-old son Billy was underweight and not growing properly, had hearing and sight problems, spoke unintelligibly, had an intellectual disability and could barely read or count.
Kimberly Colt, 14, Betty's grandaughter Raylene, was underweight and unable to clean her teeth, use toilet paper or comb her hair.
She had urgent dental problems, hearing, speech and sight issues and was unable to read or write.
She threatened to cut off a caseworker's fingers.
Betty's son Brian, 12, did not understand showering.
He had extensively decayed teeth, and borderline normal hearing.
His eyes were misaligned and he could not read, write, or recognise numbers.
Martha's nine-year-old daughter Ruth was neglected and malnourished.
She was unable to bathe or dry herself. She did not know how to use a toilet or what toilet paper was.
Her features were dysmorphic. She could not read or write, couldn't hear well and her speech was fragmented and stunted.
The caseworkers left and returned again two days later, making a further two visits and finally removed 12 children on July 18, 2012.
Back in town, the locals were unaware of what was unfolding.
As one of the townspeople told news.com.au, on occasional visits two women with "about ten children" would pile out of a car with interstate plates, buy something in the shops and then leave.
"They were never clean looking," the man said, "we always used to make jokes that if you came from that area you'd be inbred.
"But we didn't really know anything about them except those blocks, they might look like a good deal, [40 hectares] for about $20,000 but there's nothing out there, no electricity, no water, just scrub."
Taken into care, the children underwent sessions with psychologists.
The tales they told were harrowing.
Kimberly, 13, reported sexual contact with her uncle, Dwayne, who was nine years old while her aunt, Carmen, 8, watched on.
Sisters Ruth, 7, and Nadia, 9, had sexual touching with their brothers Albert, 15, Jed, 14, and Karl, 12.
On one occasion, three brothers aged 14 years and under tied their sister, 8, and niece, 13, naked to a tree.
The accounts of incestuous underage sex fill pages of court documents.
Clinicians took buccal, or mouth swabs from the children and geneticists deduced five of the Colt children had parents who were "closely related" and another five had parents who were "related".
Interviews with the parents and other members of the family revealed an astonishing tale.
Betty, Martha and Rhonda's maternal grandparents had been brother and sister.
Betty had 13 children, some of whom were probably fathered by her father, Tim, and her brother, Charlie.
Martha's children may also have been fathered by Tim.
Betty's son, Bobby, and Martha's children, Albert, Jed, Ruth and Nadia were the result of closely related parents, as were the three children of Betty's daughter, Tammy, 27, one of whom had died from a rare genetic disease called Zellweger syndrome.

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