Cops detain woman and her husband for keeping 70-yr-old on a chain in their yard for four days
Cops detain woman and her husband for keeping 70-yr-old on a chain in their yard for four daysA woman and her husband have been detained in southern Russia after they kept the woman's father (70), on a chain in their yard for four days, investigators said.
The couple were tired of taking care of the man
and decided to tie him up like a dog outsideThe couple "tied him to a tree with a metal chain in their yard and kept him there from July 28 to August 1," the Investigative Committee said in a statement.
It published photographs of a thin grey-haired man sitting on a mattress with a chain attached to his foot and of the couple's one-storey detached house in a rubbish-strewn yard in the southern Rostov region.
"Neighbours heard his cries for help and called law enforcers," investigators said.
Investigators confiscated as evidence the 3.5 metre chain, as well as his aluminium drinking cup and a plastic water bottle and launched a probe into illegal imprisonment.
"This outrageous case causes deep horror," investigators said.
The man's daughter (41) "had grown tired of taking care of the blind and deaf man and simply took him out into the yard and chained him up," it was reported, adding that the couple's children were witnesses.
In an interview given from his hospital bed, he said he had been beaten and doused with cold water to stop him calling out. As a result, he contracted pneumonia.
The emaciated old man, named only as Mikhail B, said he had longed to die as a result of the alleged abuse, "They beat me with a bottle of water, which is why I have a haematoma on my head.
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They took away my pension. When I wanted to eat, they threw ice-cold water on me. Then they chained me and stopped feeding me altogether."
"We were just shocked when we heard they had tethered Old Misha," said a neighbour, Natalya Demina.
