Prosecutors detail girls' imprisonment in Arizona home
Source: Associated Press
Prosecutors detail girls' imprisonment in Arizona home
Astrid Galvan, Associated Press
Updated 5:33 pm, Friday, November 13, 2015
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Three girls who were kept imprisoned in a Tucson home by their mother and stepfather were monitored by video, forced to march in place at wee hours of the morning and weren't allowed to use bathrooms, a prosecutor said Friday in the criminal case against their parents.
Frances M. Kreamer Hope said the girls were rarely allowed to use the bathroom, using their closet instead and sending a stench of urine through the house, even though their air duct vents had been taped shut and the bottom of their doors were blocked by towels. The girls, who were 12, 13 and 17 years old when they escaped on Nov. 26, 2013, are going to testify on another day.
Their parents, Fernando and Sophia Richter, face several charges of kidnapping, domestic violence and child abuse. They have pleaded not guilty.
"No one was supposed to know that they were there, and the sad reality is that for a number of years no one knew (the girls) were there," Kreamer Hope said.
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