So very sad.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_...en_kept_in_florida_bathroom_beaten_by_-1.html
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated Tuesday, February 17th 2009, 8:46 AM
Tai-Ling Gigliotti and her boyfriend are acused of aggravated child abuse and false imprisonment. AP
Tai-Ling Gigliotti and her boyfriend are acused of aggravated child abuse and false imprisonment.
SPRING HILL, Fla. For three years, neighbors in a quaint, middle-class community scarcely saw the lanky 16-year-old boy who lived with his adoptive mother and her boyfriend.
Now, they know why: According to authorities, the teen was brutally abused and held captive in his own home. Most recently, he'd been confined to a bathroom, locked from the outside and sealed with a piece of plywood over the window.
By the time he escaped last week, the Florida boy had a broken forearm and scars, scabs and oozing wounds that investigators say mark years of abuse.
Hernando County Sheriff Richard Nugent called it "barbaric."
"This is almost like what John McCain went through in Vietnam when he was a prisoner of war," Nugent said.
Tai-Ling Gigliotti and her boyfriend, Anton Angelo, were arrested and charged with aggravated child abuse and false imprisonment last week. Gigliotti, 50, was released on a $15,000 bond. Her attorney did not reply to messages seeking comment, and no one answered when a reporter visited her home. Angelo, 45, was released on a $50,000 bond. Available public records don't show if he has an attorney. He refused comment when approached by reporters after his arrest Thursday.
Authorities are still piecing together the boy's history, but they believe Gigliotti is the boy's aunt, and that she brought him from Taiwan to the United States when he was a young child.
The teen, whose name was not released because he is an alleged victim of child abuse, told investigators his stepfather was Anthony Gigliotti, who was the Philadelphia Orchestra's principal clarinetist. The stepfather died at age 79 in 2001, before the abuse apparently began.