NSW: Parents found guilty of locking up daughter for two years

AAP General News (Australia)
08-24-2005
NSW: Parents found guilty of locking up daughter for two years

SYDNEY, Aug 24 AAP - A Sydney couple has been found guilty of locking their daughter
in her bedroom for almost two years.

A NSW District Court jury today found the pair, who cannot be named, guilty of falsely
imprisoning their daughter, now 21, in a darkened room in their Sydney home from June
2000 to April 2002.

The jury found the couple not guilty of maliciously neglecting the girl.

The court was told during the trial that the girl, who weighed only 44kg, walked into
Macquarie Fields police station in April 2002 and told officers her mother had locked
her in her bedroom for almost two years.

The case was adjourned to October 21 for sentencing submissions.

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