Trapped in Time: The Shocking Story of Three Children Locked Away by COVID-Fearful Parents for Three Years
The parents, who were both arrested, were said to have been suffering from “COVID syndrome,” a form of extreme paranoia that results in people imposing strict restrictions on themselves and others long after public health guidelines have changed.
Siblings were rescued from “house of horrors” where they were imprisoned for three years due to their parents’ COVID fears
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The dramatic rescue took place last Monday (April 28), after local police launched an investigation prompted by a neighbor’s concern that no children from the home had attended school in years.
Upon being released from their imprisonment, authorities described a scene moving and concerning in equal measure.
The children were reportedly mesmerized by the simple sight of grass and sunlight, touching the ground and reacting with irrational fear to snails in the garden
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Photos of the children went viral across Spain, showing them leaving the home still wearing face masks—as if the height of the pandemic had never ended.
Both parents—a 53-year-old German man and his 48-year-old German-American wife—were detained on charges of domestic violence, psychological abuse, and child abandonment.
The children were living in “unsanitary” conditions, and had started drawing pictures of monsters in their bedroom
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Police Chief Javier Lozano explained that the children’s situation flew under the radar for many years due to them finding “nothing unusual about the residence,” but that as investigations continued, the family’s strange and secluded behavior started raising alarms.
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