Sweetwater Police said they discovered Thursday that an autistic man in his mid-20s was being kept in “dungeon-like conditions” in a trailer home.
Police responded to an anonymous call about the situation at 11250 NW 3rd St. at 5 p.m. The caller said that the mother kept her son in a small gated room while she left for extended periods of time, police said in a statement.
No one was home when police arrived, and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue provided entry to the home.
Inside police said they found that the man had “a small room with a blacked-out window and a rusted iron door with a lock accessible only by the outside.”
The room has no lighting or bathroom, and smells strongly of feces and urine, according to police. It only has a mattress, police said.
Charges are pending against the mother as police continue to investigate, police said.
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