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By ALAN FARNHAM ABC news July 6, 2011

You can’t put your children in self-storage: That’s the message being given Prince and Charlomane Leonard by Texas’s Child Protective Services.

The northeast Houston storage unit that the Leonards call home has 10,000 square feet—plenty of room for the parents and their six kids to roam around. It has air conditioning, beds, a bath tub, a microwave oven and two computers–among other amenities. But it lacks running water. And partly on that basis, CPS has taken custody of the couple’s offspring.

“It was June 17th that they came out here,” says Mrs. Leonard. “4:36 on the afternoon before Father’s Day is when they took the children. I have one child who is still nursing. My son was forced to wean then and there.”  click here to read more