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Swedish police arrested a 70-year-old woman who is said to have locked up her son for decades. A relative found the now 41-year-old man in the completely abandoned apartment and called the ambulance service, Swedish media reported. He had been isolated from the outside world since he was twelve years old. When he was in seventh grade, his mother took him out of school and socially isolated him.
“It was like getting into a nightmare,” said the relative who found the man, the SVT announcer. For a long time he suspected that the woman had locked up her son, he told the “Expressen” newspaper. When he found out that the mother was in the hospital, he went to the apartment on Sunday night. The apartment was dark and completely littered with garbage.
The man was sitting on the floor in the corner. He could barely speak. Despite his age, he has few teeth and wounds on his legs. The man was taken to hospital for injuries. Doctors finally alerted the police. A police spokesman confirmed that the man in the apartment in Stockholm’s Haninge suburb had been “locked up for a long time.”
Ms. denies the accusations
As SVT reported, citing family members, the alleged deprivation of liberty could be due to the loss of another child. The mother felt bad after the death of the first child. When another son was born, he was given the same name as the deceased. “She was too cautious and just wanted to recover her deceased son,” the announcer quotes. Social services did not intervene. There are no official confirmations for this information yet.
However, the police are investigating the deprivation of liberty and serious assault on the mother, who denies the allegations. She will now be questioned in the presence of a lawyer.
“We will investigate the circumstances and the man’s situation and conduct a large number of witness interviews,” said prosecutor Emma Olsson, according to a statement. The apartment will be carefully examined. The man is still in the hospital, the prosecutor said, without going into the type of injuries he had. The police want to hear from you later that day.
The decision on the preventive detention of the woman must be made before 12 noon on Thursday.
