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Go to your room..for 2 years

Authorities say the couple locked their teenage daughter in her bedroom for two years allowing her out for only a couple hours a day.

A (Milwaukee) Wisconsin couple is behind bars, each one charged with one count of causing mental harm to a child, a felony. Advertisement

"You see the sparkle in her eyes for all those years and then you sit there and imagine her anguish and fear she must have now."

Heidi Horton struggles to think about what may have happened to her goddaughter.

"Why did this have to happen?"

Horton and her sister Anita Bishop remember when they used to play and laugh with the little girl.

"Typical like most girls. Hang out and play with her cousins. Play Barbie's get dirty in the sandbox."

Relatives' say they were cut off from any future contact shortly after this woman, the stepmother; Lynn Engstrom married the girl's father Clint. Both are now in jail.

The little girl turned 13 just last Friday. Her alleged confinement and mental abuse began inside this house almost two years ago. She lived here with her three siblings. All three were the stepmother's children.

According to the criminal complaint, the little girl never got Christmas or birthday presents but her siblings did. There was also an electronic alarm on her bedroom door. A camera to watch her every move, and a deadbolt lock on the outside of her door.

"I think right now that she is the bravest person that I have ever known. Somebody was with her you know. Whether it was God or just her own bright intelligence that she has always had to figure a way out."

The couple was arrested after the teen told police she had been locked in the room allowed out only for meals, chores and one-minute timed bathroom breaks.

Posted by: Freak
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Posted in: News on January 27, 2007 @ 12:00 AM

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