Why is it that people that dedicate their lives to helping others or rescuing animals often live in conditions that are worse than the ones that they are rescuing others from? And that they often have their rescuee’s living with them in horrid conditions? That’s no rescue to me:

An investigation by a state agency is under way in Revere, Mass., of a residence condemned by local officials as, according to a neighbor, “worse than any Stephen King movie” because it reeked of garbage, feces and cockroaches.

It is the home of Andrea Watson, a child-rights advocate who lived there until the condemnation with her two children and two grandchildren. Watson’s colleagues told the Boston Herald that she is a tireless activist for children who put her “heart and soul” into Parents for Residential Reform.