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Stuart G

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Thu Dec 28, 2017, 05:37 PM Dec 2017

Couple Locked Daughter in Room For 15 Years Until She Died.

Source: CNN


A couple in Japan have been arrested after their emaciated adult daughter was found dead in a windowless room where she had apparently been locked for at least 15 years.

The daughter, 33, weighed less than 42 pounds -- about the average weight of a 4-year-old -- when her body was discovered Saturday, police said. She appeared to have died from exposure to the cold, police said.

The couple, who live in Osaka, kept their daughter in an unheated structure next to their house, according to police. The room measured about 39 square feet and the pair locked it from the outside, police said.

Her parents fed the woman one meal a day and forced her to drink water through a tube, police said.
The couple, who were arrested Tuesday and remain in police custody. Police said they confined their child because she was mentally ill and violent.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/28/asia/japanese-couple-arrested-daughter/index.html



very sad
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