Mexican child is freed from cage

Mexico City - Police have rescued a four-year-old girl from a bamboo cage where she spent the past two years after her parents…

Mexico City - Police have rescued a four-year-old girl from a bamboo cage where she spent the past two years after her parents locked her up for being "filthy", newspapers have reported. The cage was hanging over a pig pen. Lourdes Mari bel Ignacio Gomez and two brothers aged three and eight, were rescued on Tuesday by police in the state of San Luis Potosi.

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