OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Authorities say the mother of a 14-year-old boy has been arrested after her child told police he had spent years locked inside a bedroom closet.
A police report says a security guard at a National Guard facility in Oklahoma City called police on Friday after the boy showed up looking malnourished and with several scars and other signs of abuse.
The report says the teen told police he escaped from his home in Oklahoma City, where he told police he had been kept in a closet for more than four years.
Police say they arrested the boy’s 37-year-old mother and her 38-year-old friend on child abuse and child neglect charges. They were both being held in jail on a $400,000 bond.