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Sunday, 16 October 2011

Mentally handicapped chained in Philly basement; check scheme eyed

PHILADELPHIA -- Three suspects were facing multiple charges Sunday, including kidnapping and assault, after four mentally handicapped people were found chained up in a secret room in the basement of a Philadelphia apartment building.

Philadelphia Police Lt. Raymond Evers told myFOXphilly.com that officers in the city's 15th District were called to a building in the Tacony neighborhood Saturday night to help with a dispute between a landlord and a tenant.

While in the basement of the building, police heard a noise behind a locked steel door. The door was opened to reveal four people chained inside a room. All four had diminished mental capacity and displayed signs of malnourishment.   More Read

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