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From the New York Post: Three children were dramatically rescued from a COVID lockdown house of horrors after being forced for years to stay inside and wear face masks long after pandemic restrictions ended.
The siblings — 8-year-old twins and a 10-year-old — were finally freed from the home in Oviedo in Spain’s northwest on Monday after being locked inside since 2021, local outlet El Comercio reported.
“As soon as we got them out, all three children began to breathe deeply, as if they had never been outside before,” an investigator said.
Harrowing photos published by Spanish media showed the kids, who are German, emerging from the home wearing face masks.
Immediately after stepping outside, cops said, the children appeared to be amazed and went to touch the grass.
The children were discovered and the parents were both arrested after neighbors reported them to police, saying they never saw the children and they had not been going to school.
Authorities said the parents, a 48-year-old German-American woman and her 53-year-old German husband, both suffered from “COVID syndrome” and had allegedly forced the entire family to live under strict lockdown conditions for several years.
Local media outlets El Comercio, El Mundo and Spanish newspaper ABC all reported on the shocking discovery.
El Mundo wrote, “The liberation of the Oviedo ‘house of horrors’, with monsters painted on cribs: “The children didn’t even go out to the garden. They saw a snail and freaked out.””
La liberación de la ‘casa de los horrores’ de Oviedo, con monstruos pintados en las cunas: “Los niños ni siquiera salían al jardín. Vieron un caracol y flipaban” https://t.co/Qy8qfJR27M
— El Mundo España (@ElMundoEspana) May 1, 2025
HEARTBREAKING: Police Free Three Boys from Squalid ‘House of Horrors’ After Four-Year Covid Lockdown
In Oviedo, Spain, police rescued three young boys from severe parental neglect. Due to the parents extreme COVID-19 fears, the children were confined in poor conditions for… pic.twitter.com/huJ4spS3m1
— UngaTheGreat (@UngaTheGreat) May 2, 2025
Conocemos nuevos y escalofriantes detalles de la “Casa de los Horrores de Oviedo”. ¿Qué han enco0ntrado en ella los investigadores? ¿Qué significan los inquietantes dibujos de las cunas en las que dormían los tres niños? Todas las respuestas, a continuación pic.twitter.com/V7ll2ZGj6D
— ‘Mesa de Análisis’ MÁS+CanalSur (@MAS_CanalSur) May 2, 2025
3 Children Rescued from ‘House of Horrors’ After Being Locked Inside by Parents Since COVID-19 Pandemic: Reports https://t.co/Lkc6zYP19e
— People (@people) May 1, 2025
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