Man allegedly held captive by stepmom for 20 years

so she claims the now deceased father was one who locked him up etc.
This makes little sense the dad past Jan 2024 and was wheelchair bound before that ... At any time she could have freed this stepson. She did not ...... Maybe because she KNEW this was wrong and she would be in trouble. hope she enjoys being locked up.
 
Child services notified in 2005, 20 years ago. 20 years ago this ordeal could've been over.

Hopefully he makes it. At 68 pounds he's not looking good.
 
I just watched the movie “Misery” starring James Caan and Kathy Bates. Bates kidnapped Caan because she was infatuated with this man who was a writer of novels. She held him captive for several months by breaking a leg and later both ankles. BTW, this movie was taken from a book written by who else, but Stephen King.

King had 50+ books turned into movies, but “Misery” was the only book turned into a movie that won an Oscar.

I couldn’t imagine being held captive like Cann was, but for 20 years? I am sure I could have figured a way out. Maybe there is more to the story, but she definitely played a part in this man’s demise, unless I am missing something.
 
There has to be so much more to this story.

How does an 11 or 12 year old just drop off the radar of relatives, neighbors, friends, etc… without someone reporting it to authorities.

This should be a warning to all of us to speak up if things don’t seem right.

Requesting a routine wellness check by local authorities could have saved this man from a lifetime of suffering.

Very sad.
 
social services do seem to have become chronically short-staffed and therefore over-worked resulting in an inability to meet gold standards of community care for everyone?but especially children It seems to be a measurement of how much we are prepared to care for ourselves and perhaps the less fortunate ones in our own society?
 
In 1995, when I was a volunteer firefighter my department was dispatched to a house fire one summer afternoon. Smoke was visible coming from the attic of a 2 1/2 story wood frame home.

We forced entry and found that an overheated attic fan had created a small fire. We cut power, extinguished the fire with a pressurized water can and vented the home.

However when the crew went into the basement to cut power they discovered a small barefoot female child wearing only cut off jean shorts locked in a steel cell like cage with a galvanized bucket and a gallon jug of water. Police took photographs and the child was transported by ambulance to the hospital emergency room.

The small child was actually 18. Neighbors said the parents told them a few years earlier that the daughter was living with grandparents. The parents were arrested and the child, who had diminished mental capacity, was put into foster care. They were reunited a couple years later.
 
MaddHollander said:
In 1995, when I was a volunteer firefighter my department was dispatched to a house fire one summer afternoon. Smoke was visible coming from the attic of a 2 1/2 story wood frame home.

We forced entry and found that an overheated attic fan had created a small fire. We cut power, extinguished the fire with a pressurized water can and vented the home.

However when the crew went into the basement to cut power they discovered a small barefoot female child wearing only cut off jean shorts locked in a steel cell like cage with a galvanized bucket and a gallon jug of water. Police took photographs and the child was transported by ambulance to the hospital emergency room.

The small child was actually 18. Neighbors said the parents told them a few years earlier that the daughter was living with grandparents. The parents were arrested and the child, who had diminished mental capacity, was put into foster care. They were reunited a couple years later.
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Wait! What? The child that was kept in a cell was reunited with the parents?
 
oldman said:
I just watched the movie “Misery” starring James Caan and Kathy Bates. Bates kidnapped Caan because she was infatuated with this man who was a writer of novels. She held him captive for several months by breaking a leg and later both ankles. BTW, this movie was taken from a book written by who else, but Stephen King.

King had 50+ books turned into movies, but “Misery” was the only book turned into a movie that won an Oscar.

I couldn’t imagine being held captive like Cann was, but for 20 years? I am sure I could have figured a way out. Maybe there is more to the story, but she definitely played a part in this man’s demise, unless I am missing something.
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I red that book and saw the movie. Crazy as Cats lice!
 

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