Miami, United States.
A set in florida She was arrested after it was discovered that she was incarcerated for months to three teens, which he barely fed, in a case that St. Lucie County authorities have described as “horrible,” local media reported Wednesday.
Oscar Torres, 40, and his wife Brittany Kirschenhofer, 32 years old, are being held for several hours a day locked up in the room shared by three teenagers, one 17 years old and the other twins 16 years old, which they also fed sporadically.
“The three teenage victims weighed well below the accepted norm for their age,” Brian Hester, deputy chief of the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office, south of the city of Orlando, told a news conference Tuesday.
Authorities say one of the rescued minors weighed just 22 kilos and suffered from hallucinations, as well as the loss of verbal communication, muscle control and other bodily functions.
“All medical evaluations confirmed that this condition was a direct result of malnutrition and malnutrition a feeding tube is necessary to try to gradually return the child to the correct nutritional level for his age, ”added Hester.
The officer explained that the agents have a padlock on the door of the room shared by the three victims, and that the couple stated that they had put the locks in the room to hold the dogs, so that all the children could move freely around the house.
Physical abuse
“The statements of one of the victims showed that at least one of the three victims what ago physical abuserevealed Hester, adding that, according to the report of one of the teens, they “had to snoop for food scraps”.
According to the police, the minors had not left their home since at least December and they followed virtual school classes.
The three teens they are the children of Torres and they were handed over to their biological mother, who, according to the police, did not know what happened to her children because she was isolated from them.
Two other minors aged 9 and 6 also lived in the house. and Kirschenhofer’s biological children, who apparently were not victims of this “gruesome case of child neglectas Hester said, and they have been released to relatives.
The couple, who is detained without the right to bail, is facing three counts of child abuse and neglect.
The authorities were notified of this case on February 10 following an anonymous report, after which the Florida Department of Children and Families rescued the children from the shelter on February 22.