The French police arrested the parents who kept their son Dylan, aged 7, as a prisoner in a basement room which looks like a cell. Stephanie (35) and her husband Franck (42) closed their son in a dark room in the suburb of the French city of Millau, writes Extipatica.

“The boy was closed in a room in which there was nothing besides his urine soaked mattress. The room was empty, no furniture or toys. This little boy lived in conditions worse than a prison cell” said the local prosecutor Patrick Desjardins.

The social services found the boy by chance. They came to their house because they were not looking after their other son, who is only one year old. The service reported this to the police who came to search the house. The police investigators discovered a small room by chance, in which little Dylan was confined. The boy was in a serious psychological state, but despite that he proved to have knowledge, even though he did not go to any school, or have any contact with the outside world.

The parents were taken in, and the boy has been taken by social services for now.

Take a look at the recording of the house where the boy was trapped in the video: Parents Confine Son to Small Room.