Starving Children Run Door-to-Door For Help, Forced to Eat Feces, Handcuffed
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 24 October 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Two teens escaped a Texas house of horrors, telling neighbors they were being abused.
The two 16-year-old twins (a boy and girl) arrived at a neighbor’s home in Cypress at around 5:30 a.m. The twins could be seen in the neighbor's doorbell camera video barefoot and shivering.
The boy had no shirt on. The twins also said they were hungry and that they hadn't eaten in a week.
The Good Samaritan said the twins told her, "that their mom kept them locked in the laundry room, naked, zip tied from the ankles and handcuffed from the wrist.”
When investigators interviewed the twins, they reportedly said they were not allowed to use a toilet and were made to drink their own urine and live in the laundry room, which was filled with feces.
Police detained the children’s mother, identified as Zaikiya Duncan, 40, along with her boyfriend, Jova Terrell, 27.
Joining Nancy Grace Today:
- Sarah Ford - Legal Director, South Carolina Victim Assistance Network, SCvanLegal.org, Former Prosecutor focusing on Crimes Against Women and Children, Facebook: "SCVAN Legal Services Program", Adjunct Professor, Claflin University & South Carolina State University
- Dr. Bethany Marshall - Psychoanalyst (Beverly Hills, CA), DrBethanyMarshall.com, New Netflix show: 'Bling Empire' (Beverly Hills)
- Mike Hermann - Private Investigator (California), www.hermanninvestigations.com, Former Police Lieutenant, Co-Founder of the non-profit organization "PTSD Brotherhood, Inc.", Co-Host: "PTSD Brothers: Brotherhood of Service Podcast", PTSDBrotherhood.org
- Dr. Free N. Hess - Pediatrician/Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Child Safety Expert & Consultant, Founder of www.PediMom.com
- Nick Perlin - Multimedia Journalist, WBRZ News 2 (Baton Rouge, Louisiana), Facebook: Facebook: Nick Perlin, Twitter: @nickperlin_TV, Instagram: @NickPerlin2
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