Alfredo and Leticia Ines were worried their daughter would steal food from the refrigerator. This despite the girl being malnourished, looking more like an 8 or 9-year-old than a child of 12. So they locked her in a closet. For a year…

She as forced to use a bucket as her toilet. There was no electricity in the closet, so she did her homework by the sliver of light creeping underneath the door. She was only let out to go to school and eat.

But if mom and dad weren’t worried about the conditions, one of her three brothers was. So he told someone at school. When police arrived at the Brownsville, Texas home, they found the girl locked away.

Leticia, an employee at Walmart, and her husband Alfredo, a school maintenance worker, are charged with unlawful restraint and injury to a child. The girl is now in foster care, though there’s no word on where her brothers are currently living.

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