A eight year old girl have been released after her mother and grandparents had her locked in a room of a house of Attendorn (Germany) from the age of 18 months, which caused a muscular weakness He wasn’t even allowed to climb stairs. Her mother could face up to 10 years in prison.
Maria, as this girl is called in the German media, spent seven years of her life locked in a room locked at his maternal grandparents’ house. After the separation of her parents, the girl’s mother -Rosemarie G.- kept her hidden for years without letting her out of it. Not even to see the sunlight.
Although the minor showed no signs of physical abuse or malnutrition, her muscles were severely underdeveloped – she could barely walk or climb stairs – and she looked like she hadn’t seen the light of day since she was a very little girl. In fact, in her statement to the police, she said that I’ve never seen a foreststrolled through the countryside or riding in a car.
He told the father that they were going to Italy
The intention of Maria’s mother, as published bildit was hide her from the father, who reported the disappearance of his daughter shortly after birth. The girl was born in December 2013 and shortly after her parents separated. The father saw the mother and baby periodically for six months. Then both disappeared.
According to the German press, when the girl’s mother found out that the father had rebuilt his life with another woman, she left a note on the windshield of the car informing him that moved with the baby to Calabria, in Italy, without your consent. However, he hid the girl at her parents’ home in Attendorn.
The father allegedly saw the mother later in this city on several occasions and claimed that the letters and gifts he sent to his daughter at the address in Calabria given by the mother were returned unopened. The father informed the juvenile welfare authorities in September 2015, who questioned the girl’s maternal grandparents, who informed them that the mother and the girl lived in Italy and denied them permission to access the house.
This was the find
It was not until July of this year that the local authorities reinvestigated the whereabouts of the girl, after a couple who lived in Lennestadt, very close to Attendorn, alert the police to the rumor that the girl had been locked up at his grandparents’ house for years. In addition, a family source informed the authorities that one day he called the grandparents’ house and Rosemarie G. picked up the phone.
This was evidence enough. so that the police and the social workers asked the judge to issue an order to enter the house. There, on September 23, the police found Rosemarie G and her daughter Maria de Ella.
Both the mother and the grandparents have refused to testify and the minor remains with a foster family under psychological supervision while the investigation progresses. While waiting to know if the prosecutor will file charges for the illegal imprisonment and mistreatment of a minor, the 47-year-old mother could face a 10-year prison sentence for keeping her daughter locked up.
