TORTURED TEXAS TEEN TWINS WERE FORCED TO CONSUME THEIR WASTE BEFORE ESCAPING HOUSTON SUBURP HOUSE OF HORROR

‘My mom kept us locked in the laundry room’: Neighbor says teens ran to her Cypress home for help after breaking free from handcuffs

 

By Brandon Walker

Click2Houston

October 20, 2022

                   Zaikiya Duncan, 40 and her boyfriend Jova Terrell, 27, were each charged with injury to a child.

 

CYPRESS, Texas – New details have emerged about the teenage twins who allegedly escaped abusive conditions at a Cypress home, where they were reportedly living in horror at the hands of their mother and her boyfriend.

A neighbor who answered their plea for help spoke to KPRC 2 about the heartbreaking case.

‘Can you help us?’

Horrified, hurt, abused and desperate, a 16-year-old sister and brother allegedly escaped their home on Marina Alto Lane, where they said they were being handcuffed and abused.

Ring doorbell camera shows the twins standing on their neighbor’s doorstep, pleading for help.

“She was wearing a hoodie. She reached into her hoodie and showed me the handcuffs and she was like, ‘we just escaped,’” the neighbor, who wishes to remain anonymous, said.

She described the moment when the siblings showed up at her home.

“It was about 5:20 ish, 5:24 when they started ringing the doorbell,” she said.

The woman let the twins inside and called 911 after they told her what their mother allegedly had done.

“She kept shaking and she was like, ‘my mom has kept us locked up in the laundry room,” the neighbor described.

The neighbor said the children had visible signs of abuse.

“Just scratches and bruises all over his arm. Both of them had severe scars around their wrists,” she explained.

What happened?

 

Two 16-year-old twins in Texas were seen on video making a brave escape from imprisonment by their allegedly abusive mother and her boyfriend

 

Two 16-year-old twins in Texas were seen on video making a brave escape from imprisonment by their allegedly abusive mother and her boyfriend

 

The woman who eventually found the twins, who also went identified, said she discovered them in appalling shape: 'They were so skinny and so frail. They just looked like they had been through a lot. They told me that their mom kept them locked in the laundry room, naked, zip tied from the ankles and handcuffed from the wrist'

 

They found the twins, a boy and a girl, in terrible shape, with 'marks on their wrists, pretty deep marks from the handcuffs,' according to a county spokesperson

 

The two twins 'were bruised and malnourished in our eyes' when police finally got to them

 

The kids showed the woman who found them that they had just broken free from being handcuffed by their mother 

 

The breakout was caught via Ring camera footage that saw the twins, who have not been named, run from their Houston home Monday in an attempt to get someone to call the police 

 

 

According to the Harris County Precinct 5 Constable’s Office, the mother, Zaikiya Duncan, and her boyfriend, Jova Terrell, fled the home they rented in Cypress with five other children around 5:30 a.m. after realizing the twins were gone. This prompted an Amber Alert for the missing children. An 18-year-old brother of the children was also missing with the couple.

 

On Tuesday evening, Louisiana State Police arrested the couple in Baton Rouge.

Deputies said when the couple was caught, only one of the five children was with them. The suspects told law enforcement the remaining children were dropped off at a relative’s home, and they were later found safe by Louisiana law enforcement.

Duncan and Terrell were being transported back to Texas to face first-degree injury to a child charges.

All children, ranging in ages from 7 to 14 years old, have been accounted for, in addition to the twins, who just couldn’t take it any longer.

Authorities said Duncan has a documented history with Children’s Protective Services.

Louisiana court records show Duncan was accused in 2012 of three counts of cruelty to juveniles after one of her children, who was 5 years old at the time, was treated for burns consistent with being submerged in hot water. The child also allegedly regularly slept on a closet floor with boards in front  

 

“The mother got a slap on the wrist and probation and did a little class and what does CPS do? ‘Here you go. You’re fit to be a mother now,’” she said.

The neighbor shared that she hasn’t slept much, worried about the fate of the children whom she helped early that morning.

“Before they took them off, she looked at me and she said, ‘thank you,” the neighbor said.

She wants the children to know that her thoughts will always be with them.

EDITOR'S NOTE: The pictures and captions are from the Daily Mail.