Woman Kept Her 30-Year-Old Autistic Son In A Dungeon

His room smelled of urine and feces. It had no lighting, no bathroom, and there was only a mattress to furnish it.

That's what
police in South Florida found when they responded to an anonymous tip on
Thursday evening of a woman keeping her 30-year-old autistic son in
"dungeon-like conditions."

"Police found the
man's room to be a small room with a blacked-out window and a rusted
iron door with a lock accessible only by the outside," said Michelle
Hammontree-Garcia of the Sweetwater Police Department, west of Miami.

The woman has
been charged with aggravated abuse of a mentally disabled adult, false
imprisonment and other counts, CNN affiliate WSVN reported.

Police said the man had scratches all over his body and is under medical evaluation at a local hospital.

Neighbors told the affiliate that the woman would leave her son in their mobile home by himself.

"No, she doesn't take care of him; she goes to play bingo, and she leaves the son alone," said neighbor Raphael Cruz.

Police said it
wasn't certain if the man was being held against his will or if other
people were staying there. Officers have been called to the residence
before.

"That is being
determined right now," said Hammontree-Garcia. "What was told to us by
the anonymous caller is that he was held for hours at a time inside the
room, while the mother left, but that was reportedly."

 
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