The 17-year-old girl who escaped through a window from the California home in which she and her siblings were allegedly kept imprisoned in squalid conditions and starved by abusive parents told the police that she was afraid that if they caught her, they would kill her, DailyMail reported.
Police have hailed the courage of the emaciated teen, who was so malnourished officers thought she was only 10 years old, in escaping to provide evidence of the “horrific” conditions that the 13 children had been forced to endure, including being chained to beds.
