PORT WENTWORTH, Ga. (WTOC) -A Port Wentworth family says mold in their apartment made them sick and forced them to move out, leaving them with $20,000 in damages they claim their former apartment complex refuses to cover.

Malachi Singleton and his family lived at the Palisades at Rice Hope apartments before the mold issue forced them out. The couple has a young child and another baby on the way.

“They were willing to send a family with a toddler and a pregnant wife, a pregnant woman, back into a unit that they knew it was molded,” Singleton said.

The family first noticed small amounts of mold in their apartment. The problem escalated in September when they went on vacation for five days.

“By the time we got back, the mold was so aggressive that it was growing on things. And so at that

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