“All three children began to breathe deeply, as if they had never been outside before,” that’s how an investigator described the condition of three young siblings who were rescued from a home in Oviedo, Spain.
For three years, the children were effectively imprisoned by their own parents under what police describe as “obsessive” and “delusional” COVID-19 fears.
The siblings—8-year-old twins and a 10-year-old—had reportedly not left their house since late 2021, and were living in conditions authorities deemed hazardous to their mental and physical health.
