Girl, 3, found locked inside a two-foot BOX littered with dead bugs after being forced to live there by her parents
Harrowing ordeal of tiny child emerges after cops open plywood crate
A LITTLE girl who was forced to live in a wooden box crawling with vile creepy-crawleys has been rescued.
Police officers found the three-year-old curled up inside the two-feet box in a case of child cruelty that has sickened the world.
It was placed in the living room and contained insects.
The girl is thought to have rarely spoken.
An investigation is underway today at the property in Indiana, US.
Nine people have been arrested, including the girl’s dad, Christopher Short, 25, his 42-year-old wife Donna and Patricia Meeks, 18.
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They have been charged with neglect charges.
Six others were charged with failing to report child abuse.
County sheriff Jeff Richwine said: "Nobody spoke up about a little girl in a box, even while we were in there, and started taking people out."
"It’s one of those deals, you go there and think, 'Hopefully, this is not true, nobody’s going to have a small girl in a box - that’s just not going to happen.'"
The condition of the child has not been revealed.
The case bares similarities with crimes committed by evil Josef Fritzl.
The evil dad forced his daughter Elisabeth to have sex with him over 24 years while he kept her in the cellar of their Austrian home.
An Oscar-winning has shown how women move on after being kept prisoner.
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