Virginia man keeps girlfriend, children captive in home for two years

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A Virginia mother and her two children escaped captivity on Saturday after police arrived to check on the family.

According to Fredericksburg.com, Spotsylvania County responded to a caller claiming that the family inside the home had not been heard from in some time.

When authorities arrived, Kariem Ali Muhammad Moore, 43, answered the door but was reluctant to let authorities any further into the house. While he was speaking to the police, a 32-year-old woman and two children, aged 8 and 11, ran out of a side door toward police and safety.

The police took her and her children to a safe location, where the woman said that they had not been allowed to leave the house for two years. According to authorities, the three of them were not held in bondage or in a cage, so it is unclear how Moore kept them from leaving.

“I have never seen that lady and those kids since they moved into that house and that was before last summer,” a neighbor said, telling NBC 4 that she had always assumed Moore lived alone. The windows were covered by blankets, and the woman and her children were not seen outside.

Moore, who is believed to be the boyfriend of the woman and the father of the two children, has since been charged with three felony counts of abduction and felony assault and battery.