Georgia Teen 'Locked In Room For Years'

[Deleted User] · 05/10/12 - 15:34

An 18-year-old allegedly confined to his room by his parents for several years was so malnourished he still had his baby teeth, police told a court.

Mitch Comer was just 5ft, 1in (1.77 metres) tall and weighed only 40kg when he raised the suspicions of a guard at a bus station in Los Angeles last month.

He told police he had been put on a bus by his stepfather Paul Comer on his 18th birthday with a few hundred dollars cash and a list of homeless shelters. Paul Comer told investigators his stepson went to Los Angeles because he wanted to be an actor.

The Georgia teenager said he had been confined to a bedroom and bathroom since being taken out of school several years earlier, police said.

His sisters, aged 11 and 13, who lived in the same house had no contact with him throughout that time.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/georgia-teen-locked-room-years-002841940.html

This sounds like something out of a horror film, if true. Just awful.

Casual · 05/10/12 - 15:35

I wonder what his DS post count is

[Deleted User] · 05/10/12 - 15:51

His stepdad is a pr!ck.

PunksNotDead · 05/10/12 - 20:43

Crazy!

[Deleted User] · 05/10/12 - 20:44

I don't believe he still had his baby teeth.

[Deleted User] · 05/10/12 - 20:48

I wonder just how many people there are around the world locked away like this. There have been many cases besides the famous ones of Elizabeth Fritzl and Natasha Kampusch.

benjamini · 05/10/12 - 20:49

There was a similar story years ago about a girl who had been locked for years in a room. It was ghastly.

TelevisionUser · 05/10/12 - 21:03

Nyota wrote: »

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/georgia-teen-locked-room-years-002841940.html

This sounds like something out of a horror film, if true. Just awful.

This was a truly appalling account and I understand that the so-called "parents" are being prosecuted and I sincerely hope that they end up with custodial sentences for their acts of cruelty and neglect. As for young Mitch Comer, I hope he now gets help and support from Georgia's social services department so that he can have some form of quality of life.

[Deleted User] · 06/10/12 - 04:56

JumpTheShark wrote: »

I wonder just how many people there are around the world locked away like this. There have been many cases besides the famous ones of Elizabeth Fritzl and Natasha Kampusch.

That's what I first wondered when I read the story. It's so disturbing to consider.

blueblade · 06/10/12 - 08:57

Nyota wrote: »

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/georgia-teen-locked-room-years-002841940.html

This sounds like something out of a horror film, if true. Just awful.

Dreadful.

Incidentally, the report got the feet and inches to metres conversion wrong. 5' 1" is actually 1.52 metres, not 1.77, (that's about 5' 10")

[Deleted User] · 06/10/12 - 09:22

Its awful, but surely he didn't still have his baby teeth?

yorkiegal · 06/10/12 - 09:32

Reminds me of that book 'A child called it' where one sibling was terribly abused and isolated whilst the others lived a relatively normal family life. Strange how one child can treated like this and the whole family accepts it, but apparantly it can happen quite frequently in abuse cases.

annette kurten · 06/10/12 - 09:44

MidnightRambler wrote: »

I don't believe he still had his baby teeth.

and...breathe wrote: »

Its awful, but surely he didn't still have his baby teeth?

i`m sure he did.

Clinical signs of malnutrition
Site Sign
Face Moon face (kwashiorkor, simian facies (marasmus)
Eye Dry eyes, pale conjunctiva, Bitot's spots (vitamin A), periorbital edema
Mouth Angular stomatitis, cheilitis, glossitis, spongy bleedng gums (vitamin C), parotid enlargement
Teeth Enamel mottling, delayed eruption
Hair Dull, sparse, brittle hair, hypopigmentation, flag sign (alternating bands of light and normal color), broomstick eyelashes, alopecia
Skin Loose and wrinkled (marasmus), shiny and edematous (kwashiorkor), dry, follicular hyperkeratosis, patchy hyper- and hypopigmentation, erosions, poor wound healing
Nail Koilonychia, thin and soft nail plates, fissures or ridges
Musculature Muscles wasting, particularly in the buttocks and thighs
Skeletal Deformities usually a result of calcium, vitamin D, or vitamin C deficiencies
Abdomen Distended - hepatomegaly with fatty liver, ascites may be present
Cardiovascular Bradycardia, hypotension, reduced cardiac output, small vessel vasculopathy
Neurologic Global development delay, loss of knee and ankle reflexes, impaired memory
Hematological Pallor, petechiae, bleeding diathesis
Behavior Lethargic, apathetic
SOURCE:"Protein Energy Malnutrition"[25]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malnutrition#Clinical_signs_of_malnutrition

nitecloak · 07/10/12 - 01:31

Nyota wrote: »

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/georgia-teen-locked-room-years-002841940.html

This sounds like something out of a horror film, if true. Just awful.

Just the title of this thread is making me feel ill!

Just imagine how much that poor teen has missed out on!

exlordlucan · 07/10/12 - 01:38

MidnightRambler wrote: »

I don't believe he still had his baby teeth.

Who else would have had them?

[Deleted User] · 07/10/12 - 02:06

When asked why he did not escape through a window, Shelton said, the teenager replied: "I'm afraid of bugs."

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Is he serious...........:eek:

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