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CYPRESS, Texas -- A teen who told Texas constabulary that helium and his duplicate sister were handcuffed and endured horrific maltreatment escaped their family's location aft helium recovered a handcuff cardinal and hid it successful his mouth, authorities said successful tribunal records.
The twins, barefoot and holding handcuffs, were seen connected doorbell video arsenic they sought assistance successful a Cypress neighborhood, conscionable extracurricular Houston. The video, obtained by Houston TV presumption KHOU, showed the teens walking door-to-door astir 5:30 a.m. Tuesday arsenic they sought help.
The lad was shirtless and the miss was wearing lone a integrative market container astir her cervix arsenic a shirt, according to an affidavit.
The pistillate who fto them wrong told Houston TV presumption KTRK that the teens told her: “We are not present to wounded you.”
“She was shaking with her handcuffs," the woman, who was not named successful the story, said of the girl. "She was like, ‘We are looking for help. We conscionable request help. We conscionable broke retired of our handcuffs. Our ma had america handcuffed successful the laundry room.’”
Their mother, Zaikiya Duncan, 40, was arrested hours aboriginal successful Louisiana aft constabulary issued a missing children alert for 5 different children. All 7 children, including the twins, are present successful Child Protective Service custody, authorities said.
The 15-year-old twins were severely malnourished and told constabulary that maltreatment had been occurring for months, the affidavit said. They told constabulary that Duncan handcuffed them, forced them to portion bleach and different household cleaners and besides sprayed oven cleaner successful their mouths “if they talked excessively much,” the affidavit said.
The twins besides told authorities that they were forced to devour and portion feces and urine, according to the affidavit.
The neighbor, an intensive attraction portion nurse, said she photographed the teens' injuries and called police.
The miss “was complaining that she couldn’t adjacent adjacent her manus due to the fact that her manus conscionable felt truthful choky and swollen from her trying to tug and propulsion disconnected the handcuffs,” the pistillate said.
Duncan is jailed successful Baton Rouge and awaits extradition connected charges of aggravated assault. Her live-in boyfriend, 27-year-old Jova Terrell, besides faces an battle charge. It wasn't known whether either had an lawyer and they are expected to beryllium extradited to Texas wrong 30 days, KTRK reported.
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This communicative has been updated to close subordinate attribution astir the planned extradition to KTRK.
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