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ISRAELI POLICE SAID they freed a 14-year-old boy today who had been kept at home by his parents ever since his birth.
Social services in the town of Hadera, north of Tel Aviv, had called in the police after they were alerted by a neighbour of the family.
Police arrested the parents, aged around 60, and handed over the boy to social services for medical care.
The neighbour, Chiko Waknin, told army radio that he had seen the boy through a window looking “like a zombie in a horror film”.
“His eyes seemed to be saying, ‘Help me’, so I decided I had to do something,” said the neighbour, adding that the home was in a “dilapidated” state and emitted an “unbearable smell”.
The parents are Russian-speakers and hardly know any Hebrew, he said.
Their lawyer Dan Guilad, quoted by Israeli media, said they had been trying “to protect their son who suffers from health problems”.
Radio reports said the child had told police he was allowed to go out into the courtyard of his apartment building twice a month accompanied by his parents, mostly at night.
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Kudos to Ms Staines and to Ms Joyce.
@Fachtna Roe: (that’s from one coder, to two others)
I’m absolutely delighted for those two young ladies. Very well done and I’m sure that they will have great and well-deserved success in their chosen fields of study and work.
Congratulations to those two ladies! Bright futures ahead.
Space, don’t ya just love it …. really well done to the two ladies on their project
On my nightly stroll i can spot the ISS in the sky its the brightest one far brighter than the stars.
What an amazing achievement by those two students. Bravo!
This is the best story I’ve read all week, well done and best of luck in your experiments
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