Police: Man locked kin in filthy trailer for 3 years
14 August 2008
LAVONIA, Georgia (CNN) — A Georgia man is accused of holding his wife and children captive in a trash-filled mobile home for three years, police said Wednesday.
Police say Raymond Daniel Thurmond kept his wife and children locked inside a trailer for three years viagra rezeptfrei kaufen.
Raymond Daniel Thurmond, 36, was arrested after police got a call from a woman at a local shelter August 4, Lavonia Police Lt. Missy Collins said.
"She told me they had a mother and four kids and apparently they’ve been kept at home and there was some abuse allegations and the dad wouldn’t let them leave," Collins said.
Collins said police were told that the family had been at the shelter for five or six days.
When police got to the mobile home where the family was said to be kept, the conditions were so bad, Collins had to immediately run behind an adjacent trailer to vomit, she said. Another officer had to put on a gas mask, she said.
"You couldn’t breathe," Collins said. "I have never cialis kaufen in my life smelled anything like that."
During the three years they were locked inside the mobile home, the family was allowed out only once: to visit Thurmond’s wife’s family in North Carolina, Collins said. The 9-, 12- and 13-year-olds never went to school, police said, but the oldest, a 14-year-old boy, might have attended the second grade.
Thurmond, who has no criminal record, was charged with one count of rape, four counts of cruelty to children in the first degree and five counts of false imprisonment. He is being held in the Franklin County Jail.
Thurmond asked for a lawyer but hadn’t been assigned one as of Wednesday afternoon, according to The Associated Press.
Police said they believe that Thurmond used intimidation to keep the family inside the home in northeast Georgia, about a mile from I-85.
A CNN reporter saw signs of a hasp commonly used with a padlock outside the children’s bedroom and also on the front door. Another hasp was attached to the outside of the back door. Police said they were investigating whether padlocks were used to keep the family inside.
Alma Medina, the property manager for the Beaver Creek mobile home park, lived three doors away from the family for the past 2? years. Medina said Thurmond was late paying his rent but was very respectful.
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"A very nice guy, very quiet," she said. "He never bothered nobody."
Medina said she put a note on Thurmond’s door this month to pay the late rent by August 5. On August 6, after no rent was received, she sent her maintenance man to the 3-bed, 2-bath trailer. He opened the door and came straight back, she said.
"I want you to see this with your own eyes," she recalled the maintenance worker saying to her. "You better wear some shoes and gloves or something,"
Medina went in the trailer and found piles of trash everywhere: 4, 5 or 6 feet high, she said.
Medina shot a video of the trash inside the trailer, including Diet Mountain Dew bottles, board games, cigarette boxes, frozen pizza boxes and piles of human hair on the kitchen floor. The laundry room was filled to the ceiling with trash, Medina said.
"You cannot describe the smell," she said. "It was so strong it would knock you out."
After Thurmond’s arrest, the trailer was cleaned out, but yellow jackets swarmed around a Dumpster full of trash — including a stroller, car seat and toys –
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