This story is so horrifying it can't be real, although I know it is. Those poor kids. How do they ever recover from this? Can you imagine never seeing the outside world, the sky, the sun, breathing the air? Even something like a tree would be foreign. Knowing that your father, who is also your grandfather (for the children), did this to you. And someone else mentioned what would have happened if he died? He was their only link to survival. Assuming the wife didn't know, they would have just starved slowly to death one by one.
I'm sure that there are other places where this kind of thing is going on. People said he seemed so nice and normal. They even had guests staying in the home upstairs. It makes you stop and think about people you think you know, who seem so normal. Who could be doing something like this? Or are there people near us hidden away, trapped, within our reach, but we don't know?
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