Children rescued from four-year Covid lockdown in ‘horror house’
- Spanish police rescued three boys aged 8 and 10 from a locked home in Oviedo on April 28, 2025.
- The rescue followed a neighbor's April 14 report about the children’s prolonged absence from school since December 2021 during the Covid-19 pandemic.
- Officers found the house filled with rubbish, animal feces, medicines, and masks, and the children were dirty, isolated, and spoke mostly English.
- Chief Inspector Francisco Javier Lozano described the place as a "house of horrors," noting that when the children were finally brought outside, they inhaled deeply, as though experiencing fresh air for the first time in a long while.
- The children's guardians, a German father aged 53 and his American wife aged 48, have been charged with domestic violence, repeated psychological abuse, and neglect.
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