Georgia man accused of holding family captive in home for 3 years

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Story Published: Aug 12, 2008 at 6:00 PM EDT

Story Updated: Aug 13, 2008 at 12:03 PM EDT

LAVONIA, Ga. (AP)- Police have arrested a man accused of holding his wife and four children captive in squalor for three years inside their mobile home in northeast Georgia.

Police in Lavonia, near Interstate 85 and the South Carolina line, say 36-year-old Raymond Daniel Thurmond was arrested Tuesday when he showed up for work at a poultry processing plant in Stephens County.

Chief Bruce Carlisle says Thurmond was charged with rape, child
abuse and false imprisonment.

Investigators said they found no food in the home, and the children were undernourished and underweight.

Carlisle said the woman and children had been allowed to leave just once since moving to the mobile home park in 2005. A 14-year-old once attended first grade but the other children, 13, 12 and 9, had never been to school.

(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)


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Wednesday, Aug 13 at 3:28 PM new wrote ...

WHERE HAS THIS FAMILY BEEN THIS GOES BACK MORE THAN 3 YEARS IF THE KIDS HAVE NOT ATTENDED SCHOOL THIS 14YEARS OF BEING AT HOME THE FATHER LEFT EVERY DAY AND WENT TO WORK MOM SHOULD HAVE SCREAMED FOR HOW MANY HOURS FATHER WAS NOT AT HOME NO MOM LEFT THE TO SEEK HELP AFTER FINDING OUT THE HUSBAND WAS SEEING ANOTHER WOMAN AND HOW DID SHE KNOW THAT IF SHE WAS NOT ALLOWED OUTSIDE AND TO TOP THAT OFF YOU GO VISIT YOUR PARENTS WITHOUT THE HUSBAND FOR TWO HOURS AND RETURN TO THE HOUSE READANDERSON NEWS

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