Mother tied the hands and feet of her sick 13-year-old son and left him in a “wooden cage”: apparently she had been doing this since he was six years old and the police rescued him

There is pain and outrage among the people of the Venezuelan city of Araure, where police rescued a 13-year-old teenager from the old ‘wooden box’ in which his own mother had locked and subdued him. That was his ‘cage’.

According to neighbors, the minor, with a motor disability, has spent the past seven years in these conditions. He suffered from seizures, it was heard.

The grandmother and four sisters are being held together with the mother, El Nacional reports. By the time of the arrest, the situation became tense as some people attempted to lynch the women.

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The minor is apparently schizophrenic

Preliminary investigation of the case shows that the teenager had not eaten for two days, El Nacional reported, citing Portuguesa Reporta.

Every piece of information they reveal is as serious as it is shocking: “The mother kept him in the wooden cage since he was six years old, according to local media.”

And to prevent him from leaving the cage, they “tied his hands and feet.”

A medical consultation revealed that, in addition to his motor disability, he apparently suffers from epileptic seizures and schizophrenia.

On Friday, September 15, 2023, the minor was released from this cage prison given to him by his own family, a fact that has shocked Araure, a city in the state of Portuguesa, located in the heart of Venezuela.

Officers from the Bolivarian National Police (PNB) and councilor Miguel Olivares arrived at the simple house, where the teenager was kept every day.

They mobilized to respond to a complaint that turned out to be painfully true: “When they found the teenager in the cage, a kind of wooden box measuring 2×2 meters, the police commission arrested the six people who lived in the house,” Portuguesa reported. .

For that medium, journalist Mariángel Moro identified the detainees as “Xandra (26), Deyanira (29), Ana (19), Cándida (28), Marisela Guédez (31). The grandmother is María Muñoz.

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Before justice

The Municipal Council for the Protection of Children and Adolescents of Araure takes care of minors.

The procedure has gone to the Seventh Public Prosecutor’s Office and will be submitted in a few hours to a control court of that flat region of Venezuela, according to Portuguesa media.

In networks, as if to reflect, they say that they do not share what the six women did, but they ask ‘not to judge’… they blame the state for not offering help or not having a program for people with schizophrenia or other diseases.

Carlos Méndez, shocked by the news, commented: “Deep research and without passion, drops everyone who needs to fall. Especially when that desperate family asked for support and was denied by a government agency, as usually happens, because that’s how they locked him in that wooden cage to protect him.”

While Eleana Valles reflected: “Now they are going to put them in jail and come to criticize who helped them and when They screamed for help for the child. What they have is schizophrenia and they are very aggressive, and no one has gotten their hands on them. Now they come asking to be arrested, sometimes you need to know things first before you can judge (…).”

While Lilisbeth Parra added an equally painful comment: “I have seen several cases like this, of families who have no control over their relatives with such a condition, in some cases schizophrenia, they lock them up so that they cannot escape and do not get hurt. It is difficult and even more so when you do not have money for treatment and even less a state to help with care or a place where you are admitted and cared for to improve.”

The detainees were treated child violence and cruel and inhuman treatment of a particularly vulnerable minorcrimes contemplated in the Organic Law for the Protection of Children and Adolescents, said reporter Mariángel Moro.

(JO)