2023-07-19 19:58:05
a mother of Milwaukee (United States) and her boyfriend face multiple felony charges for allegedly imprisoning two children in their home for years, 7 and 9 years. According to the criminal complaint, a neighbor first saw the children looking through a broken window on July 13. They then got into an air conditioner, jumped into the yard, and walked naked down the street.
A child witness to the events reported that the minors “were acting as cavemenas if they had never seen the sun before. Christine Eder, to describe what he saw when the children escaped from the house. “They were walking in fits and starts. It looked like they had never brushed or cut their hair. They didn’t know the outside existed,” she added.
Mother, Katie Cook, 34, is charged with four felony and two misdemeanor counts related to child neglect and false imprisonment. her partner, Joel is missing, 38, is charged with four felony counts. In Milwaukee County court, prosecutors described the living conditions of the two children discovered by officers when they entered the home as something out of a horror movie.
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The floor of the house was completely full of trash and scattered elements that were mixed with the garbage, urine and feces. For their part, the judicial authorities have revealed in a report that the children have spent most of their lives locked in his room and that they had the boarded up windows and the door locked from outside.
The mother of the little ones and her partner have declared that they moved to that house a little over four years ago. The man acknowledges that he was aware that the way the children lived was not right, but that he had to “pick his battles” with Koch to avoid arguments. The woman has also acknowledged that she has never taken them to the doctor and that she has educated her children at home in a house that “it is not habitable”and that he was aware that they “deserve better”.
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