The children weren’t allowed to eat. They weren’t allowed to bathe.
They couldn’t play with toys that were kept in the closet, still packaged. They couldn’t go outside. They couldn’t escape.
Their depraved parents allowed them to do only one thing, prosecutors said.
They could write.
Writing in the journals was, quite possibly, what allowed the children to survive a life of fear, hunger and torture. Click here for more details from News 2