Overview

• Three children, including eight-year-old twins and a ten-year-old boy, were rescued by Spanish police from a house in Oviedo where they had been confined since December 2021.
• The children were reportedly kept in Gitterbetten, forced to wear diapers and masks, and denied access to the outside world, including their garden or school.
• The parents, a German father and a German-American mother, were arrested and are awaiting a judicial decision on potential charges.
• A neighbor who noticed the children never attended school alerted authorities, leading to a police operation during a nationwide power outage.
• The rescued children, now in a care facility, showed visible signs of neglect and reacted with astonishment when encountering grass and fresh air for the first time in years.