Police say mom kept boy locked in bathroom for a year

Story highlights

• The bathroom was filled with feces
• The door was locked from the skin; the sunshine swap duct taped within the off place

Authorities say Brandy James locked her son, now 12, in an upstairs toilet in her Toquerville, Utah, dwelling for maybe so long as two years.

After they discovered him, the boy was so severely malnourished, he weighed simply 30 kilos.

The situations inside, as specified by an indictment, are really upsetting : The bathroom bowl was so filled with feces that there did not look like any water inside. The door was locked from the skin. The sunshine switches have been duct taped within the off place, so the boy most likely sat in darkness on a regular basis. The boy so weak when he was discovered that he would not have been in a position to arise and take the duct tape off on his personal.

Empty bean cans and a spoon have been discovered within the bathe, the place the drain was lined with duct tape.

"I've seen the photographs. They're horrific," Washington County Sheriff's Lt. David Crouse instructed CNN affiliate KSL. "I've seen different horrible issues, however that is a type of issues I will always remember. I want I might unsee it."

Crouse stated a video digicam was arrange so the mom might monitor the boy on her cellphone, and a child monitor was arrange so she might give him directions however he couldn't reply.

Worst ever seen

The boy's father discovered him -- "laying on the ground of the lavatory with a blanket" -- on Sunday at James' home and rushed him to a hospital. Then the sheriff's deputies have been referred to as. Crouse stated the mom and father are married however separated.

An emergency room physician at Dixie Regional Medical Middle stated "it was the worst case of malnutrition he had seen."

The docs stated "the sufferer can be hospitalized for at the very least three weeks to get him wholesome once more," the sheriff's workplace assertion.

James, the mom, instructed deputies she would typically lock her son for his personal security when she left the home. She additionally claimed he "needed to sleep on this toilet" regardless of the wretched situations. She was charged with one rely of felony baby abuse. It is unclear if she's employed a lawyer.

The boy hadn't been to high school in three years, Crouse stated. Two different siblings lived in the home.

They did not present any indicators of abuse.