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RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) \u2014 Two defendants charged in a sexual and child abuse investigation in Southern Wake County are being held without bond, a day after they were both arrested at a hotel in Raleigh.<\/p>

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Wake County deputies, with the assistance of the Garner Police Department, took Lacy Hocutt Junior and Rachelleigh Galasso into custody yesterday, each on multiple felony charges. <\/p>\n

\u201cI will tell you in 18 years this is some of the worst I\u2019ve ever seen,\u201d an assistant district attorney said during Hocutt\u2019s first court appearance Thursday.<\/p>\n

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Lacy Hocutt Junior (left) and Rachelleigh Galasso (right). (Courtesy Wake County Sheriff\u2019s Office)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Prosecutors said their arrests stem from an investigation that started in February, after the Wake County Sheriff\u2019s Office received reports that several children recently placed into foster care had been abused.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen CPS and Wake County got involved, the Sheriff\u2019s Office went out to the residence where these children had been living and it was so filthy that investigating officers had to wear protective gear and body suits when they went inside the house,\u201d the prosecution said.<\/p>\n

Hocutt faces nine statutory rape charges in connection with this investigation, including three charges for a child under the age of 15.<\/p>

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Galasso, meanwhile, faces four felony child abuse charges. According to the arrest warrant, one child reportedly was kept in a dog kennel with feces and had to be treated for E. Coli.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe now rocks back and forth and all he yells is, \u2018you\u2019re never getting out, you\u2019re never getting out\u2019, which we can only assume is what was screamed at him while he was in that cage,\u201d the prosecution said.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said the children have continued medical needs and hadn\u2019t been to school until being taken from the house.<\/p>

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