Dutch kids kept secluded by parents in Spain for years

A woman with a Dutch father says that she and her younger brother were locked up in their home in Spain by their parents for years, the Spanis newspaper El Punt Avui reported. The now 24-year-old escaped from the home in Arbucies, in northeastern Spain, on February 24. She knocked on the neighbors’ door and told them that she and her 18-year-old brother lived cut off from the outside world, had never been to school, didn’t have a television, and that the neighbors were the first non-relatives they spoke to.