why the hell didn't the STATE (or city) step in?

didn't they come for home checks? didn't they see the children's sleeping quarters? the couple tells a nice story about protecting the kids but i don't buy it for an instant. IF they cared, the children wouldn't have slept in cages and YES they ARE cages. if they couldn't handle 11 kids and watch out for them as individuals, THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO HAVE ELEVEN KIDS.

Father says confining children was necessary
Reporter allowed into home


Monday, October 24, 2005;
Posted: 11:25 a.m. EDT (15:25 GMT)
CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) -- The father suspected of keeping some of 11 special-needs adopted children in cages says he confined them only to keep them safe and showed off damage to his home he says they caused.
"I felt terrible about it," Michael Gravelle told a reporter and photographer for The Plain Dealer during a tour of his home Sunday. "But it's necessary."
The children were removed from the home last month and sent to foster homes while the adoptions are investigated. The parents have not been charged, and custody hearings are scheduled in the widely publicized case.
The couple previously has not let reporters into their home, about 60 miles southwest of Cleveland near Wakeman. Michael Gravelle said he was tired of his wife, Sharen, being labeled "world's most evil mother."
The Gravelles say they were adopting children nobody else wanted, who had problems such as fetal alcohol syndrome, autism, HIV and pica, an eating disorder that causes children to eat dirt and rocks...............