Child Locked In Attic For 13 Years

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Child locked in attic for 13 years.

Three people are facing charges in connection to the death of a 10 year old boy who was subjected to extreme abuse for years and locked in a dark attic while naked according to court records. Family of dead dayton 10 year old locked in attic. Takoda was rushed to dayton s children s. The social worker soon discovered that the girl had been confined to a small room and an investigation by authorities quickly revealed that the child had spent most of her life in this room often.

A third a boy named john survived followed five years later by the girl who would become known as genie. Under her paranoid father s vicious rule he also kept a gun in his lap at all times as a means of intimidation. She was locked to that chair with a homemade strapping device and hit with a one by three foot board each time she made a noise. When a drunk driver killed wiley s mother in 1958 he unravelled into anger and paranoia.

Genie s story came to light on november 4 1970 in los angeles california. Al mutahan mclean 30 was indicted on fours counts of endangering children two counts of felonious assault and one count of rape of a person. Genie was a feral child. The 13 year old s horrific story is similar to that of 7 year old vannoy jimenez who in 1988 climbed out a window in the locked bathroom of his parents apartment weighing only 25 pounds.

A social worker discovered the 13 year old girl after her mother sought out services for her own health. Genie spent the first 13 years of her life strapped to a potty or a chair in a homemade straightjacket. 18 2007 oshkosh police were called a month ago to the home of a 13 year old kept locked in near solitary confinement but made no attempt to help her according to a police report obtained by the journal sentinel. Sad case of child abuse sheds light on language production versus comprehension.

It wasn t until genie was 13 years old that her abuse was discovered.