A community activist who first aired claims that Rudy Farias was abused by his mother has doubled down after a denial by Houston police.
Quanell X, who says he was in the room with Mr Farias when he spoke to investigators on Wednesday, emerged from the meeting to tell reporters that the 25-year-old had described being hidden and subjected to abuse by his mother, Janie Santana, for eight years after she reported him missing in 2015.
