Janitor finds four mentally disabled people chained in basement. Three suspects arrested. Believed t
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[release]Philadelphia (CNN) -- At first, a Philadelphia landlord said,
[b] he thought one of his tenants was attempting to conceal a dog after finding a dog dish in the
basement of his apartment building.[/b] But on a return trip to the basement Saturday,
[b]Turgut Gozleveli found something much more sinister: four mentally disabled
people held captive, including one man chained to a radiator.[/b]
"It was terrible," he said Sunday, adding the people were surrounded by human waste. "I don't know how long they were there." Three people have been arrested and accused of holding the people captive and stealing their Social Security checks.
[b]Linda Ann Weston, 51; Thomas Gregory, 47; and Eddie Wright, 49, face charges including criminal conspiracy, aggravated assault, kidnapping, criminal trespass, unlawful restraint, and false imprisonment, Philadelphia police said in a statement Sunday.[/b]
The alleged
[b]victims include a 29-year-old woman and three men, ages 31, 35 and 41, said Philadelphia police Lt. Ray Evers.[/b]
[b]Weston, the alleged ringleader, was convicted more than 10 years ago on a murder charge in Philadelphia, Evers said. She served eight years in prison.[/b]
All seven -- the three suspects and four alleged victims -- had been traveling together, he said, but did not know for how long. Weston is believed to have been in McLean, Texas, with some or all of the alleged victims. They then traveled to Florida and Philadelphia, Evers said.
Gozleveli said he was contacted Thursday by the block captain of a neighborhood group regarding suspicious activity. He checked out the basement that day and found a few things out of place, but no people.
[b] On Friday, he found the dog dish. On Saturday, after hearing a dog barking, he went to the building's sub-basement and found a door chained shut. He found the people after removing the chains. "Other than the barking dog there was no sound," he said. "... I said, 'What the hell are you doing here?' No answer, and I called 911." "This was a total surprise," Gozleveli said. "I never expected to find people. I just expected to find a dog."[/b]
The people, he said, "acted like children."
[b]The four were in a room roughly 10 feet by 15 feet, Gozleveli said, and looked malnourished and disheveled. They had a metal bucket and a jug of what appeared to be orange juice, but no food. They also had pillows and blankets, but didn't know where they were or where they had come from, he said.[/b]
[b]Authorities believe the four were trapped in the tiny room for up to a week. Evers said they suffered from bed sores and "injuries that are very, very hard to describe."[/b]
The alleged victims appeared to be malnourished and were taken to a hospital. They were listed in stable condition Sunday, police said.
The FBI is also investigating. The northeast Philadelphia building is a former movie theater converted to a seven-unit apartment building.
Police cars were still outside the building Sunday afternoon. The four people found in the basement were brought out on stretchers, said Danyell Tisdale, the block captain who notified Gozleveli. She said she was concerned about some of the things she'd seen recently, including people being brought in from the back of an SUV with out-of-state plates.
"I hope I did enough," she said. "I called."[/release]
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Exploiting a human for their benefits is disgusting, but to do it to 4 people? Are you fucking serious?
what the fuck
Fucking Philadelphia, gets worse every day.
Holy shit, who would be sick enough to do this? Hope the people that did it get killed in prison, sick fuckers.
I wonder how long this went on for
[editline]16th October 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=SpaceGhost;32818863]Hope the people that did it get killed in prison, sick fuckers.[/QUOTE]
let's not start that
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;32818789]Exploiting a human for their benefits is disgusting, but to do it to 4 people? Are you fucking serious?[/QUOTE]Exploiting is one thing, chaining and treating them like trash is fucked up.
why would they need welfare and social security checks?
What the fucking christ
I mean, what would encourage them to do that, seriously?
It's not like it would be a huge sum of money.
and what the fuck must they have been thinking whenever they went down there to check on them / feed them / move them / etc.?
What the fuck
Also, in before "Oh this must mean that this is happening everywhere, Social Security needs to be abolished".
Wow that's fucked up.
What the fuck? Seriously, what... I can't.. God, my fate in humanity is long gone, my anger however, is growing every day.
so what happened to the dog
These people have no souls. Why would you treat anyone like this?
That's retarded.
But it all seriousness, i'm glad that the people suspected are in jail. This is horrible.
here comes the black jokes.
Seriously though, those people are bastards with no morals.
and the landlord never slept again
They did all that, instead of getting a damn job.
I would hate to be locked in someones basement, I'd rather be killed than spend years stuck unable to do anything.
rot in prison, scumbags...
Whoever makes fun of someone who is mentally/physically challenged is an animal.
But locking them in a basement, treating them like shit, just for their SOCIAL SECURITY CHECKS...
It makes me want to vomit.
He had better fucking get life in prison, that sick fuck.
Injuries that are very, very hard to describe?
Makes me think they had aliens in the room, or something crazy.
[quote]Weston, the alleged ringleader, was convicted more than 10 years ago on a murder charge in Philadelphia, Evers said. She served eight years in prison.[/quote]
If this woman has been convicted of murder in the past, then, tell me, what is she doing outside of either prison or a coffin?
I hope those 3 die a horrible, painful, slowly dragged out death
[QUOTE=zomgfoo;32820686]If this woman has been convicted of murder in the past, then, tell me, what is she doing outside of either prison or a coffin?[/QUOTE]
Because people don't actually stay in prison all their lives for murder? They get out after a few years on parole or due to a short sentence.
WHY.
[QUOTE=KingKombat;32820716]I hope those 3 die a horrible, painful, slowly dragged out death[/QUOTE]
Let's not go there.
Seriously, what the Christ.
How much does a social security cheque even bring in?
Just get a job, holy shit. I could make almost double what they get working at a fast food.
What the Fuck.
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[QUOTE=SpaceGhost;32818863]Holy shit, who would be sick enough to do this? Hope the people that did it get killed in prison, sick fuckers.[/QUOTE]
Sure what they did was wrong, evil, and possibly inhumane, but you should never, ever, wish death on another human being, regardless of your, or their, race, creed, political, social, or religious beliefs.
[QUOTE=DesumThePanda;32822244]Sure what they did was wrong, evil, and possibly inhumane, but you should never, ever, wish death on another human being, regardless of your, or their, race, creed, political, social, or religious beliefs.[/QUOTE]
Thats your opinion.
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