Disabled 4 chained in basement
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October 18, 2011, Tuesday
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TWO of three suspects charged with keeping four mentally disabled adults locked in a squalid US basement have appeared in court on kidnapping and related charges.
Gregory Thomas and Eddie Wright are being held on US$500,000 bail following their arraignments on Sunday.
Police say Thomas, Wright and 51-year-old Linda Ann Weston kept the three men and a woman chained in the basement of a Philadelphia apartment building. They say the building's landlord discovered the malnourished victims last Saturday.
Investigators say the four were kept chained to a boiler behind a locked steel door. Police say the 29-year-old woman and the men, who are 31, 35, and 41, have the mental capacity of 10-year-olds. A police spokeswoman said: "It was horrible. The space was very tiny and confined."
Police are investigating the possibility that the suspects were trying to make money through access to the victims' social security or disability checks.
Online court records do not indicate whether Weston has been brought to court. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports she served eight years in prison for the 1981 starving death of a man who refused to support her sister's unborn child.
Gregory Thomas and Eddie Wright are being held on US$500,000 bail following their arraignments on Sunday.
Police say Thomas, Wright and 51-year-old Linda Ann Weston kept the three men and a woman chained in the basement of a Philadelphia apartment building. They say the building's landlord discovered the malnourished victims last Saturday.
Investigators say the four were kept chained to a boiler behind a locked steel door. Police say the 29-year-old woman and the men, who are 31, 35, and 41, have the mental capacity of 10-year-olds. A police spokeswoman said: "It was horrible. The space was very tiny and confined."
Police are investigating the possibility that the suspects were trying to make money through access to the victims' social security or disability checks.
Online court records do not indicate whether Weston has been brought to court. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports she served eight years in prison for the 1981 starving death of a man who refused to support her sister's unborn child.
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