MARIETTA, GA (WXIA) A Georgia woman and her daughter have been found guilty of abusing three mentally ill men after authorities said the two locked the men in a dank, unheated basement and stole their government benefits.

A jury found 54-year-old Sheila Bell Hawkins and her 72-year-old mother Helen Flournoy Bell guilty of 16 charges each.

Prosecutors said Hawkins and Bell were operating an unlicensed personal care home out of Marietta, where the men were supposed to be cared for, but that wasn’t the case.

According to police accounts, officers found the men “living in filth” inside the unfinished basement of Bell’s Windy Hill Road home. Officers reported that the men’s clothes were dirty and not adequate for the “freezing basement where investigators could see their breath as the exhaled.” Officers said the men smelled of urine and had clearly not bathed recently.

“No words can capture the horribleness of that house,” said senior Assistant District Attorney Jason Marbutt.

Not only were the men living conditions deplorable, investigators said each of the victims relied on Social Security and other benefits, which Hawkins and Bell used to pay for services provided by their business, Serene Reflections for Holistic Behavior Wellness.