CLARKFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio -- More information is being revealed about the family that kept nine children in cages.

NewsChannel5 reported one of the 11 children was adopted from the Cuyahoga County Job and Family Services five years ago.

It's unknown where the other children were adopted from.

A Cuyahoga County official said all the proper procedures were followed during that adoption. He also said that records included a note that recommended the Gravelles as a fine family.

Officials said deputies were called to the home twice in the last five years: once to settle a neighbor dispute in 2000, and last year when a 12-year-old boy was upset and ran away for several hours. He was found down the road.

The family has lived in Huron County for 10 years.

A boy born with HIV was adopted as an infant in 2001 through the Cuyahoga County Department of Children and Family Services, the agency's director Jim McCafferty said. The Gravelles received a subsidy of at least $500 a month.

The private agencies who reviewed the couple's home life before the adoption gave them "glowing reports," McCafferty said.

Payments are meant to encourage adoption by ensuring families can maintain their standard of living, said Rhonda Abban, chief of adoption services for the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.

"There's no followup because you're giving that family the money so they can incorporate that child into their life," she said.

Leah Hunter, who lives two houses away, said she often saw the children walking down the road.

"They looked OK. They hardly ever wore shoes but I'm a country girl and for me that's normal. You can drive by and see them playing in the yard, or from my house you could hear them playing," Hunter said.

Sommers said one of the smaller buildings on the property was used as a schoolhouse.

Hunter's father-in-law, Holey Hunter, who also lives down the street, said two of the teenage children helped him bale hay this summer. "They weren't bad kids. I was tickled to give them some spending money," he said.