SUBSCRIBE TO MY CHANNEL www.youtube.com Three people were arrested and charged with kidnapping, assault and other crimes after Philadelphia police found four mentally handicapped adults shackled in "deplorable conditions" in a basement storage closet of a Northeast apartment building Saturday. The three men and a woman were found by a janitor chained to a water heater, in a 15-by-15-foot room, locked behind a steel door. All were malnourished, said Officer Tanya Little, a police spokeswoman. The female victim is 29, the men 31, 35 and 41; each has the mental capacity of a 10-year-old, police said. The captives apparently came from Texas, lived for a year with at least one of the captors in West Palm Beach, Fla.; then arrived in Philadelphia around Oct. 4, Lt. Ray Evers, a police spokesman, said late Saturday. But interviewing the victims was difficult, Evers said, and it was not clear whether Texas was their home or just a stop on their odyssey as prisoners. "We have no idea who some of these people are," Evers said. The three people arrested were a 51-year-old Texas man, taken into custody at the scene, and 50-year-old woman and a 48-year-old man arrested Saturday night. The woman had two relatives who lived in the building, though those relatives did not appear to know anything about the four prisoners in what Evers described as "a dungeon." The names of those arrested were not released until they were formerly charged, Evers said. Charges included kidnapping ...
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SUBSCRIBE TO MY CHANNEL www.youtube.com Three people were arrested and charged with kidnapping, assault and other crimes after Philadelphia police found four mentally handicapped adults shackled in "deplorable conditions" in a basement storage closet of a Northeast apartment building Saturday. The three men and a woman were found by a janitor chained to a water heater, in a 15-by-15-foot room, locked behind a steel door. All were malnourished, said Officer Tanya Little, a police spokeswoman. The female victim is 29, the men 31, 35 and 41; each has the mental capacity of a 10-year-old, police said. The captives apparently came from Texas, lived for a year with at least one of the captors in West Palm Beach, Fla.; then arrived in Philadelphia around Oct. 4, Lt. Ray Evers, a police spokesman, said late Saturday. But interviewing the victims was difficult, Evers said, and it was not clear whether Texas was their home or just a stop on their odyssey as prisoners. "We have no idea who some of these people are," Evers said. The three people arrested were a 51-year-old Texas man, taken into custody at the scene, and 50-year-old woman and a 48-year-old man arrested Saturday night. The woman had two relatives who lived in the building, though those relatives did not appear to know anything about the four prisoners in what Evers described as "a dungeon." The names of those arrested were not released until they were formerly charged, Evers said. Charges included kidnapping ...
SUBSCRIBE TO MY CHANNEL www.youtube.com Three people were arrested and charged with kidnapping, assault and other crimes after Philadelphia police found four mentally handicapped adults shackled in "deplorable conditions" in a basement storage closet of a Northeast apartment building Saturday. The three men and a woman were found by a janitor chained to a water heater, in a 15-by-15-foot room, locked behind a steel door. All were malnourished, said Officer Tanya Little, a police spokeswoman. The female victim is 29, the men 31, 35 and 41; each has the mental capacity of a 10-year-old, police said. The captives apparently came from Texas, lived for a year with at least one of the captors in West Palm Beach, Fla.; then arrived in Philadelphia around Oct. 4, Lt. Ray Evers, a police spokesman, said late Saturday. But interviewing the victims was difficult, Evers said, and it was not clear whether Texas was their home or just a stop on their odyssey as prisoners. "We have no idea who some of these people are," Evers said. The three people arrested were a 51-year-old Texas man, taken into custody at the scene, and 50-year-old woman and a 48-year-old man arrested Saturday night. The woman had two relatives who lived in the building, though those relatives did not appear to know anything about the four prisoners in what Evers described as "a dungeon." The names of those arrested were not released until they were formerly charged, Evers said. Charges included kidnapping ...
