Three people have been accused of endangering a child after rats bit a six-week-old girl and chewed off her toes at their cluttered US caravan home.
Authorities said the baby's toes on one foot were gone when sheriff's deputies went to the home in the city of Columbus, in the mid-western state of Ohio, on Sunday after receiving an anonymous tip.
"It's one of the most horrific things I've ever seen," Pike County prosecutor Rob Junk told the local 10TV News.
"I hope we never see anything like this again."
The baby is now in a fair condition at hospital.
A married couple and the 18-year-old boyfriend of the baby's mother are charged with endangering a child.
10TV News named the couple as Joseph Gunter, 33, and Tina Gunter, 29, and the accused 18-year-old as Todd Trent.
All three were in court for an initial hearing before they were jailed pending a plea hearing in two weeks.
Mr Junk said they all lived in the mobile home in a village noted for its old uranium enrichment plant.
Two other children were also removed from the home and placed in protective custody, but they showed no signs of abuse.
Mr Junk said the baby's mother is a juvenile. He would not identify her or say if she will be charged.
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