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Swedish police arrested a woman in her 70s who was suspected of having detained her son for almost 30 years, after he was finally found in his apartment in the Stockholm suburb in a miserable state, according to the media, without teeth, with infected wounds and apparent malnutrition.
Police spokesman Ula Osterling told “AFP” that the mother is being detained “on suspicion of unlawful deprivation of liberty and causing bodily injury.”
In addition, the newspapers “Expressen” and “Aftonbladet” reported that the mother had detained her son for almost 28 years, after she took him out of school when he was 12 years old.
The police spokesman said his son, who is now 40, “has been held for a long time” in the family apartment in Hanninge, a Stockholm suburb. The apartment, where the events occurred, is located in an ordinary stone building, in a modest neighborhood of Handen, about twenty kilometers from the center of the Swedish capital.
Police concluded the apartment, as crime scene experts were seen leaving the scene, according to an AFP photographer. And the Prosecutor’s Office confirmed, in a statement, that “the warning was given by a relative after seeing the son.”
Swedish media reported that the man had infected wounds on his knees, could barely walk or speak, and almost lost his teeth. Police did not confirm these details, but explained that the son was taken to hospital for treatment.
The Expressen newspaper quoted a relative who discovered the facts, without revealing his identity, “There was residue of urine, dirt and dust. There was a musty smell (…) The place has not been cleaned for years.” He noted that getting around inside the apartment is very difficult due to the accumulated piles of garbage inside.
The mother’s motives have not been made public. It is also not clear what all the circumstances of the case are and if the son was moving out of the apartment or if he was still detained during these years.
Don Sompon, a twenty-five-year-old engineer who lives in the same neighborhood, told AFP: “We were surprised to learn what was happening near us.”
Toveh Bouman, a twenty-four-year-old woman living in a nearby building, also described these events as “terrifying and especially sad.” “I grew up here and I always felt like a strange woman,” he said, referring to the mother.
