Police publication bodycam video from the rescue of New England Mann, who are kept in captivity in the family in the family for 20 years – Boston 25 messages

Waterbury, Conn. – A man who was saved from a burning house in Connecticut told a shocking story of cruelty and constant hunger when he was captured by his father and stepmother in a single room for 20 years.

The man told the authorities that his restriction began when he was about 11 years old. He said he was locked up almost all day and the night in a room without heat or air conditioning and only received limited food and water.

Without access to a bathroom, he developed opportunities to dispose of his waste, including a series of straws that led to a hole in a window. The teeth would break off when he had eaten due to a lack of dental care. He saved part of his daily ration of two small water bottles to bathe without soap and cut his own hair.

The years of cruelty ended on February 17, when he set fire to the house in Waterbury to save himself, and told his history of the reacised police and firefighters, as was liable for the arrest who accused his stepmother due to kidnapping, cruelty towards people and other crimes.

The police are now trying to determine how this could have happened without anyone noticing it and whether warning signs were missed. The investigators want to examine records of city schools and the state children's aid authority, said Waterbury chief of police, Fernando Spagnolo, at a press conference.

The man, who is now 32 years old, is identified as “male victim 1” in police notes.

“I would encourage people not to hurry to judge,” said Kaloidis in a telephone interview. “This woman is considered innocent.”

The Waterbury Police Department published the 911 call and body cameras film from the rescue. When the officials arrived in the house, Sullivan was outside and held her dog and was still inside.

In the video, Sullivan cries to the first aid: “My stepson is here!”

The video also showed firefighters and Emts, who carried the victim from the house for transport to the hospital.

The man's father died last year, while his biological mother was not part of his life, the authorities said. He and Sullivan lived in the house he set on fire.

The medical staff said that the man was almost hungry and has a waste of syndrome, a illness of weight loss and muscle deterioration when he came to a hospital, the arrest warrant says. At 5 feet, 9 inches in size (1.75 meters high), he weighed only £ 69 (31 kilograms).

It was treated for smoke inhalation and diagnosed with post -traumatic stress disorder and depression. Spagnolo said the man was a long way of physical and mental treatment. He said the police support him, including a collection, to buy clothes and other objects.

The man told the police that he was constantly hungry. When he was at school, he asked classmates around food, steal food and eat out of the trash. In later years when he was not at school and was limited to the house, he got two sandwiches a day and some water while he was locked up in his room.

The only interactions of the police with the family were in 2005, said the boss. One was a welfare check after children who attended school with him before he was pulled out.

The second and last time was after the family had submitted a harassment complaint against school officers because they had reported to state child aid officers. Officers who went into the house said they spoke to the man, a child and a child, and stated that there was no reason to worry, said Spagnolo.

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Officials of the Foreign Ministry for Children and Families who examine child abuse said on Thursday that they did not find any records of the agency's participation in the family but would continue to look. They added that reports on neglect or abuse that were classified as unfounded are deleted five years after the examinations have been completed.

“We are shocked and sad about the victim and under the unspeakable conditions he was capable of,” said the department in an explanation. “The now adult victim has shown incredible strength and resilience during this time of healing and our hearts go to him.”

When the man attended a primary school for the Waterbury as a child, the employees saw that he was extremely small and thin and called several calls to the stepmother and the department for children and families, Tom Pannone, a former school director of the school, told WVIT TV. Spagnolo said the police did not have this information when she answered the man's house in 2005.

The Waterbury school officials did not immediately return e -mail messages to receive a comment.

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