How a man used printer paper and hand sanitizer to escape an alleged 20 years of captivity by his stepmother

edition.cnn.com /2025/03/13/us/waterbury-connecticut-man-captive-stepmom-hnk/index.html

Both sides of his door had been secured with plywood and a lock, the man would later say, to stop him from getting out.

For years, he’d only been given two sandwiches – egg or tuna salad, or peanut butter – and a small amount of water each day, he’d recall, in the storage space where he was held.

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Every day I become more and more convinced of the need to abolish the family
I really need to read The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
- The future generations should be raised in common. Children shouldn't be subject to the cruelty and idiocy of two tyrannical dictators. Moreover we currently offer no guarantee that children are provided food, shelter, or even a meaningful education. They hold our future and we treat them as beggars.
- What do you mean by abolishing the family?
  
  They probably mean in family in the capitalist sense where a patriarch enforces a rigid, gendered hierarchy and social reproduction exists as devalued labor supporting capitalist production

like with the holes on the sides?

The most extreme case was Genie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(feral_child)
This story is a bit odd, the boy wasn't a small child like Genie, he was around 14 when it started and had siblings that knew of his ordeal. He wasn't developmentally stunted like Genie was, yet it lasted till he was 30yrs old.
- CW for that wikipedia article: the R slur is used quite a bit
  
  It's not used as a slur though.
- Genie's story is devastating. This shit haunts me

All that’s been alleged, her lawyer told reporters Wednesday outside court, is “absolutely not true.” “Ms. Sullivan is presumed innocent,” Kaloidis, her attorney, told CNN in a statement. “The warrant details allegations that must be proven at trial.”
Police executing search warrants found plywood and a lock on the door to the man’s room, the affidavit says.

Though I wonder what the stepmother was doing
, he got out at least, thank Simonaque.

The man had two adult sisters who did nothing "fearing retaliation".
What kind of massive coward do you have to be to see your brother locked up since the age of 12 and to his 30s and say or do nothing because you're scared of your mom.
Bullshit I say, they're complicit. Everyone who didn't report this or try to stop it is culpable.
- What kind of massive coward do you have to be
  I shouldn't have to say, but being able to cut out your family members out of your life is a luxury that some people just can't afford. Like in some areas, "burning a bridge" with your family is a pretty quick way to earn the ire of the surrounding community for breaking the unwritten rule to them.
  
  Their brother was locked in a room for 20 years. If you let that happen to maintain a relstion with your mom (Who is doing it), you are complicit in the crime. It's that simple.

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