Police in Mexico are on the hunt for a cruel couple who kept their child locked in a cage.
Lisette Guzman Montoya, 28, and Menajem Jurado, 33, are the wicked parents behind the little boy’s cruel imprisonment, Central European News reports.
The disturbing scene was exposed when an election team from a local political party showed up at their home in Mexico City to do some campaigning.
“Our people knocked on the door and as they waited, they heard a child crying,” said politician Evaristo Roberto Candia Ortega. “When they looked round the corner of the house they saw a little boy standing in a cage weeping with a dog chained to it.”
After nobody answered the door, team members decided to snap a picture of the trapped child — prompting an enraged man to come outside and confront the group.
“Somebody came out of the house and was very aggressive,” Ortega said. “They [campaigners] decided to get away to call the police. It was clear to my party colleagues that the man was either on drugs or very drunk.”
“When they returned with the police, the place was empty and both the child and dog had gone,” he added.
Since authorities did not have any luck tracking down the despicable duo or their son, Ortega thought it would be a good idea to put the shocking picture he took of the confinement on the web, according to CEN.
“I put the photograph onto Twitter because I want these people found,” he said. “I find it disgusting that anyone would lock up their child and leave him in those conditions.”
Ortega talked with neighbors who told him the fiendish parents were a couple of drug addicts who often locked the boy inside the cage because they didn’t want to take care of him.
“We are aware of who these people are and are diverting resources into finding them as quickly as we can so that the little boy will be safe,” a local police spokesman said.
Back in June, Mexican police in Xalapa stumbled upon a 4-year-old boy chained to the bars of a balcony, according to CEN. Authorities said he had been locked up as a punishment.