- The minor was confined since she was a year and a half. She can read and write but has difficulty walking.

- The authorities had asked about her a few years ago, but the mother informed them that she was going to move to Italy.

City of Siegen, in Germany.

Police release an 8-year-old girl who spent seven years locked up in her grandparents' house in Germany

The German Police have released an 8-year-old girl who was kept locked in a room in her grandparents' house for seven years without going to school or playing with other children.

The public prosecutor's office in the western city of Siegen is investigating the mother and grandparents, spokesman Patrick Baron von Grotthuss said.

"On September 23 this year, the Olpe district youth welfare office and the police entered a house in Attendorn and took custody of an eight-year-old girl who lived there," the prosecutor said.

The first news that a girl lived without leaving the house reached the child welfare office in 2020, but the mother assured then that she would move to Italy with her son.

Liberada una niña de 8 años en Alemania que pasó 7 años encerrada en una habitación en casa de sus abuelos maternos, que la ocultaban de su padre. La madre de la niña se enfrenta ahora a una condena de 10 años de prisión https://t.co/OXIRLzFzBS pic.twitter.com/b4rVl7vBO7

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The youth welfare office and the police went to the house in September. "They had to enter with a court order," the attorney general explained.

The mother and grandparents are accused of depriving the minor of her liberty, a crime for which they could face prison sentences.

The girls have been relocated to a foster family. Police acknowledge that she showed no signs of malnutrition or abuse. She knows how to read and write, but has difficulty walking, according to information collected by the German press.

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