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Woman Found Alive After 27 Years Locked In A Room By Her Parents
A 42-year-old woman who has been missing for 27 years has been discovered by police, imprisoned in her parents’ house.
The woman, known only as “Mirella,” was just 15 years old when she vanished in Swietochlowice, Poland, in 1998. It is said that her parents informed neighbors that she had vanished.
But earlier this year, after nearly thirty years, she was eventually released after the police were called to her family’s home after hearing a commotion.
Polish news site Fakt says that the woman had spent the most of her life imprisoned in one room having no contact with the outside world, and added that when police found her in July, she was ’emaciated, with leg wounds going to the bone’.
The 82-year-old landlady denied any issues, but when officers noticed Mirella’s leg wounds, they phoned an ambulance. They transported the 42-year-old to the hospital even though she claimed that “everything was fine.”
She was ‘days away from death’ due to an infection, and it was a good thing they did, because she spent the following two months behind bars.
Luiza, a neighbor of the 42-year-old, recalled that Mirella was a “healthy teenager” when they played together as kids before she vanished, and that she “looked like an old lady” when she was taken out of the house.
In addition to visiting the woman in the hospital, the neighbor and her friends have launched a fundraising, which you may donate to here.
After nearly three decades since her last interaction with the outside world at the age of 15, the 42-year-old woman is facing a protracted recuperation and rehabilitation procedure.
Mirella had to start anew without being registered in any systems, according to Aleksandra Salbert, another fundraiser organizer.
“We went to the hospital almost every day. Mirella is a very nice girl, she has so many dreams. She’s never been to a doctor, she didn’t have ID, she wasn’t insured, that’s not normal,” the fundraiser organiser explained.
“She has no insurance, isn’t even registered as unemployed, has no money, and doesn’t exist in the eyes of the system.”
“We bought her ointments, a jacket, and shoes, because she had nothing. We want to help her long-term, also providing legal assistance.”
A teenager was released from a “house of horrors” earlier this year after alleging that her mother and stepfather had imprisoned her there for years. This is not the only instance of kids being held captive by their parents for extended periods of time.
The couple’s lawyers have entered a not guilty plea to the accusations against them, but prosecutors say they forced the teenage girl to reside in a padlocked bathroom.
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