US EditionThree children locked inside 'house of horrors' for years are rescued by Spanish police - reports
- Spanish police rescued three siblings aged 8 and 10 from a home in Oviedo on April 28, 2025, where they had been locked indoors for over three years.
- The children’s prolonged confinement arose from their parents’ extreme COVID-19 fears, described by police as "obsessive" paranoia despite lifted restrictions since March 2022.
- Authorities found the house in hazardous, unsanitary condition, filled with trash, medications, masks, and disturbing children’s drawings indicating severe mental distress.
- Authorities took into custody the 53-year-old German father and his 48-year-old German-American wife on allegations related to domestic abuse, ongoing psychological harm, and neglect of their children, who were subsequently placed under government care.
- Medical evaluations confirmed the children were not seriously ill despite parents’ claims, and the case has sparked national shock, highlighting the pandemic’s lingering psychological impact.
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'Completely cut off from reality': Three children locked in a 'house of horrors' by parents since 2021 rescued in 'terrible shape'
No child should ever have to endure life trapped in fear, filth, and isolation, especially not at the hands of the very people meant to protect them. Parents are supposed to be their children’s safe haven, a shelter from the chaos of the world. But what happens when that shelter becomes a prison? This unsettling question has come to the forefront after the shocking discovery of three children, aged 8 and 10, who were rescued from what authoritie…
The 'house of horrors' discovered: 'Three children locked in the house for more than three years between waste and medication, their parents obsessed with Covid'. The Police's Shock Tale
They lived for more than three years in the garbage without being able to leave home. Not even to go to school or just to get some fresh air. In Oviedo (Spain), a couple of parents cut their three children, two eight-year-old twins and another ten-year-old, out of the world. According to the neighbors, since the last months of 2021, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, no one has ever left the house that the family had rented. The children gre…
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