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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Bevan Hurley

Mother and boyfriend charged after her two sons escape Milwaukee ‘horror’ house

Milwaukee Police Department

A Wisconsin mother and her boyfriend are facing felony charges of child neglect and false imprisonment after her two sons were allegedly locked in a “horror” home for years.

Katie Koch, 34, and Joel Manke, 38, were arrested after her two sons aged seven and nine were seen running down a suburban Milwaukee street naked and covered in blood and faeces on 13 July.

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