Parents Kept 13 Kids Shackled As Slaves In Their Home

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[link to dailycaller.com]

Two parents kept thirteen victims shackled in chains like slaves, California officials announced Monday after a home investigation.

Investigators were alerted to the situation when one of the victims managed to escape from padlocks and alert police officers for help, reports ABC 7.

The seventeen-year-old girl was able to get out of her chains and steal a cell phone from the house to call the police. The Perris Police Department and the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department went to investigate and talked to the girl, noting that while she was 17, she was so starved she looked like a 10-year-old.

Authorities found 12 other victims in the house ranging from the ages of two to 29 years old. On top of being in chains and padlocked, the victims were also living in squalor and malnourished, investigators said. The parents did not give a reason for the condition of their children.