By Denise O'Donoghue

A landlord in Cork city has had his house ruined by a family who blocked all the toilets in his house and kept maggot infested human faeces in black bags on the floor.

Val rented a house in "pristine condition" in Cork to a couple with three young children. When they moved out, he discovered they had destroyed his house.

The three toilets in the house were blocked, and they were using black bags on the floor as makeshift toilets for a number of months.

Val found one black bag in the hallway filled with faeces and maggots.

Every appliance in the house needs replacing, and Val estimates that he must spend €6,000 to restore the house to its previous condition.

Val contacted the Neil Prendeville Show on Cork's RedFM to warn other landlords about the family as he is aware they are currently looking for rented accomodation in the northside of Cork city.

Many listerers to the show have expressed concerns about the welfare of the couple's young children, who had been living in those conditions.

"Three small children live with their parents in this rented house? The children need to be taken into care. These parents are obviously not fit to raise them," one person wrote on Facebook.

One man recognised the house, having visited it a year ago.

"I delivered an appliance to this house last summer," he said. "The scary part is there was children living in this house also. I didn't have to read the caption, recognised it straight away. One thing that the pictures can't show is the smell in the house."

HT: RedFM

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