A couple was arrested for keeping their three minor children arrested in a house near Oviedo, Spain, since 2021. Children lived without sanitary conditions, without access to school or the outside world. The authorities consider that there are “Sufficient evidence of crime” in what is described as the “House of horrors”.
A couple was arrested by the Spanish authorities for maintaining the three minor children, Two eight -year -old twins and a ten boy, arrested at home since 2021. The family lived in a country house in a rural area in the Oviedo region of Spain.
According to the children lived Without sanitary conditions, surrounded by stool, they slept in cribs and did not attend school. Minors are children of a German citizen53, and a Woman with double nationalityAmerican and German, 48 years old. The couple was arrested by the local police of Oviedo.
“The House of Horrors”
The authorities consider that there are “Sufficient evidence of crime” in what is described as the “House of horrors”.
According to the chief commissioner’s statements, Francisco Javier Lozanoquoted by the Spanish newspaper, the housing had no hygiene conditions, was surrounded by garbage and was found “Surprising quantity” of stored medicines.
The family still had a gatowhich was found with the very weakened health. As House windows were constantly closed e There was no air circulation inside.
Speaking to uThe police officers described the moment they entered the housing and found the children.
“It was he who let us in, although he had us wait until they put the masks to the children. They were very scared and around the mother, who constantly told us that the children had serious pathologies and that we would not approach them.”
Each used three overlapping masks. They were completely oblivious to any contact with reality. One of them touched the grass with his hands, surprised. As soon as we brought them out, the three began to breathe deeply, as if they had never been outdoors, “he says.
Case denounced by a neighbor
The authorities were aware of the case through a Phone call from a couple’s neighboron April 14th.
The woman suspected that children lived inside the housing, since I used to hear voices and had already seen them through the windowsalthough I had never seen anyone away from home.
As authorities watched home for several days And they realized that there was only movement abroad when orders were received from a supermarket. There was only record of a resident in the housing: the father of the children. The police started distrust the amount of food deliveredconsidering excessive for only one person.
