Investigators said they found him in urine-soaked pyjamas, pale and malnourished, and desperate to go to school.
A 10-year-old boy in London, Ont., was freed Thursday from the filthy bedroom he was forced to live in for up to two years, London Police Insp. Kevin Heslop told reporters Friday.
The child’s guardians, his aunt and uncle, have been arrested and charged with failing to provide the necessaries of life and forcible confinement. His nine-year-old female cousin was also removed from the home, and both are now in foster care.
The boy, who has not been identified by police, was “living in filthy conditions,” Heslop said, for an estimated 18 to 24 months.
He survived on a diet of fast food, delivered once in the morning and once at night. Although the bedroom had an ensuite bathroom, Heslop said the boy slept on a urine-soaked mattress, surrounded by feces and fast-food containers, and may have only left the room once, for a brief period, in 2013.
“It’s a horrific case and everyone sees it as that,” Heslop said. “Of course this is upsetting to (investigators); it would be upsetting to anyone.”
Jane Fitzgerald, executive director of the Children’s Aid Society for London and Middlesex, said it is thanks to an anonymous tip that they were able to save the boy.
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