MADRID: A 19 year old boy of British-Indian origin was freed last week by the police from his father's captive. Locked up in a building in the Rivas Vaciamadrid district od Madrid, the teenager sent an email to the officials asking them not to get in touch with him.
"Rescue. Assistance. Help me. I am desperate. My father abuses me. I am held prisoner. Please, do not get in touch with me because he would kill me," the victim, identified as Prakash sent to a confidential police account designed to help people in family-related troubles. The Civil Guard police force later released pictures of the place and the squalid conditions in which British man Ghanshyam, had locked up his son.
"The youth was suffering from emaciation, disorientation, and the physical effects of beatings by father," the Civil Guard said in a statement. They said he weighed only around 6st 2lbs when he was rescued. The father was arrested and accused of unlawful detention, before being released on bail. Ghanshyam's wife left the house three years back with their daughter, however, the victim stayed back.
"The father is not normal. He is very strange. I knew that the boy was in the house because when the Civil Guard came three years ago with a court order to take the women away, he decided to stay," next door neighbour Luis García said.
