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  • A grim discovery has been made in Stockholm, Sweden, a man in his forties found wounded in an apartment and may have been held captive there by his own mother for nearly 30 years.

  • The mother, a 70 year old woman whom neighbors thought lived alone, has been arrested.

  • The man was reportedly found by a relative on Sunday.

  • Swedish media say he was found lying on a blanket on the floor, toothless, unable to speak and covered in sores and injuries.

  • One of the neighbors spoke to Swedish Television Way.

  • Haven't lived here that long.

  • We moved in June this year, but she's been very nice and sweet Way had a baby in the summer, so she was like Oh, have you had a baby?

  • And she told us that she had a child that was born prematurely and so on, but we felt that she's been a nice elderly neighbor and three of the elder gone there.

  • Swedish news outlets are reporting that the son was taken out of school aged about 12, and that he was found next to two almanacs from the nineties in the apartments, which was packed with clutter stock on prosecutor In my Olson says the mother is denying the charges off false imprisonment and grievous bodily harm.

  • There was no immediate explanation of why the sun had been held.

A grim discovery has been made in Stockholm, Sweden, a man in his forties found wounded in an apartment and may have been held captive there by his own mother for nearly 30 years.

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