Couple of a prison with 7 years imprisoned and kept her in dog cage, the police say

One evening last week, a teenage girl with a shaved head burst into the house of her neighbor in Blackwood, NJ, sat down on the couch and started to spill a moving story.

She said that her stepfather and mother had locked her up at home in the last seven years, since they pulled her out of primary school with the excuse she would have been home. She said they had locked her up in a dog crate for a whole year and at one point had chained her in a bathroom. She said her stepfather had sexually abused her.

This week, after a police investigation, prosecutors in Camden County, in South Jersey, just outside Philadelphia, various charges against her mother, Brenda Spencer, 38, and stepfather, Branndon Mosely, 41. They include assault, criminal disability, abduction and weapons; Mr. Mosely is also confronted with countless counts of sexual violence.

“The investigation has confirmed the horrible acts by the victim and we will hold the responsible person responsible,” said Lieutenant Andy McNeil, a spokesperson for the office of the Public Prosecutor of Camden County in an interview. Authorities have not identified the 18-year-old teenager.

Mr. Mosely is a railway conductor for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, the transits system that the Philadelphia region serves, and Mrs. Spencer is a dog handler who specializes in large Danes, the authorities said. They are held in prison while waiting for a detention hearing planned for next week. Lawyers for the pair of refused to comment.

Days after the ailing teenage girl walked in the house where he stayed, said Michael Lacey, a 36-year-old polar cleaner, which he continued to break down in tears about the brutality she had described.

She told Mr. Lacey how an alarm system was rigged so that she could not escape. How her mother shape her head as punishment and how she was forced to relieve herself in a bucket. And she explained Mr. Lacey that it all happened behind closed doors just 20 meters away from the house in which he stayed, that his mother belonged to.

“After I discovered that everything she told me was true, I broke,” said Mr. Lacey in an interview. “I wish I had known. I wish I had known.”

The region was recently shaken by a creepy similar episode in which a 32-year-old Connecticut-Man escaped what he said was 20 years in prison By his deceased father and stepmother. He put a fire in his room, so firefighters had to save him from his family’s burning house, the authorities said. His stepmother is confronted with several charges with regard to his imprisonment.

The scene in Blackwood, where the teenager is supposed to have been kept, is “one of the most despicable things we have encountered,” said Chief David Harkins of the Gloucester Township police on a press conference on Wednesday. Civil servants also focused at home school, an increasingly popular and hardly any regulated alternative to traditional training. Getting the girl from school ‘helped to hide the horrible torture for years, “said Grace C. Macaulay the public prosecutor of Camden County.

When the police entered the house, they found filthy circumstances, said Mrs. Macaulay, as well as a room rigged with an alarm system, the bucket that the girl said she was forced to use and the chains she said had bound her.

Mr. Mosely and Mrs. Spencer took the 13-year-old sister from the teenager after the second class in an attempt to hide the abuse of her brother or sister, according to a criminal complaint. “They were afraid that she would tell someone that the victim lived in a dog crate,” is the document. The charges against the couple only relate to the older sister; Civil servants said that an investigation was stated whether there were other victims.

According to their Facebook accounts, Mr. Mosely and Mrs. Spencer have three other children together: a 3-year-old boy and twins 5-year-old girls. Officials said that only the two teenage sisters were found in the house and could not provide information about other children.

A large number of animals were also removed from the house, including four large Danes, three other dogs, a lizard, snakes, different birds, two hamsters and 29 chinchillas, according to Chief Harkins. Mrs. Spencer’s social media are filled with love notes for Mr. Mosely, interspersed with images of her in sun dresses pose with big Danes in dog competitions.

Since 2017, the family seems to have lived in their house on Ridge Avenue, according to real estate records. Since then, the only police calls have been to the house for barking dogs in the garden. But when the police arrived, Chief Harkins said, the couple quickly put in the dogs.

No responding officers have ever entered the house.