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   Teenager with autism found locked inside cage with door chained shut   
      
   Three adults and two children were also removed from the house in Michigan   
   LAMIAT SABIN   Tuesday 28 October 2014   
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   Two pensioners have been charged with unlawful imprisonment after a   
   19-year-old with autism was found locked in a cage on a  wooden bed.   
      
   A 65-year-old woman and 66-year-old man were arrested at the home and   
   authorities removed three adults from the property on 20 October.   
      
   Two children, who were also found at the house, were taken away by protection   
   services after a court ruling five days later.   
      
   Police found the man with a thin blanket on a wooden "bed" platform and the   
   barred door chained shut after responding to an incident at the property in   
   Paris Township, about 90 miles north of Detroit, Michigan.   
      
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   The arrested pair are being charged with unlawful imprisonment and   
   misdemeanour abuse of a vulnerable adult, and are held in the Huron County   
   Jail.   
      
   Michigan's Department of Human Services says its adult protective services   
   office is investigating the incident.   
      
   The department's spokesman Bob Wheaton said the home is a private residence   
   and not a licensed care facility.   
      
   A spate of abuse against people with autism, a developmental disability   
   characterised by impaired communication and social skills, has been reported   
   over the past few months in the US.   
      
   Earlier this month, 46-year-old Kelli Stapleton, a former autism campaigner   
   from Battle Creek, Michigan, was sentenced to at least 10 years in prison for   
   first-degree child abuse after attempting to kill herself and her 15-year-old   
   autistic daughter.   
      
   Two months earlier, the parents of a severely-autistic 11-year-old boy in   
   Anaheim, California, were charged with child endangerment and false   
   imprisonment after he was found in a dog kennel.   
      
      
      
   http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/autistic-teenag   
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