Police authorities have made a disturbing and horrifying discovery of how a wicked and heartless mother locked up her two daughters for over 10-years forcing them to eat poo and wood to survive.
The two sisters were freed by the police
Police are probing the imprisonment of two women they believe were kept in the basement of a dilapidated home for decades and who survived by eating bricks and faeces. Cops were left upset and disappointed after making shocking discovery that the captured woman lived like animals and were so famished they resorted to eating their own faeces and wood to survive.
This footage shows the heart-breaking moment the sisters, who were "raised like animals," are released from their squalor after an anonymous tip-off led to the horror-inducing discovery.
The Mirror reports that both women are unable to speak and are believed to only be able to communicate using sounds - now police are investigating their family over their alleged imprisonment.
Locals have reacted in shock to the news that their neighbours had been keeping their two daughters locked up in the house for years. Authorities arrived at the house in the town of Pacora in Caldas, north-western Colombia, to find the door locked and the mother away on holiday.
The only person left to care for the two women was their 90-year-old grandfather, who was instructed not to open the door to anyone. Inspectors found the bedraggled women, aged 32 and 34, who suffer from mental and cognitive disabilities and do not know how to talk, communicating with sounds.
The authorities were first notified by an anonymous caller, who reported the constant moans and wails coming from the basement. Images show the moment the women are freed by social workers from the room they were locked inside with chains and a padlock .
Jazmin Gomez Agudelo, representative of Caldas Department authorities, said: "The house was uninhabitable, almost fallen apart.
"They were living in a room where they also carried out their physiological needs like animals .
"The most shocking vision was when we first walked in and saw one woman with a brick in her mouth.
"These women often ate bricks and pieces of wood, as well as their own excrement."
The two women were also kept tied up and plates were found next to their bed, from when a neighbour would sometimes bring them food. The victims were taken to hospital for treatment and evaluation, where doctors and prosecutors will consider if the mother, yet to return from holiday, jeopardised the lives of her two daughters .
Authorities are now considering prosecuting her for attempted murder.