Bruised and 'malnourished' teenage twins escape from abusive mother

Malnourished twins, 16, escape from handcuffs to raise the alarm on their mom – cops rescue their five siblings and arrest mother and her boyfriend

• The breakout was caught via Ring camera footage that saw the twins, who have not been named, run from their home Monday 
• The woman who eventually found the twins, who also went unidentified, said she discovered them in appalling shape 
• Eventually, police set off an Amber Alert for the twins’ five other siblings, ages 7 to 14, who were found safe a day later in Louisiana 
• Authorities soon tracked down their mother, 40-year-old Zaikiya Duncan, and her boyfriend, 27-year-old Jova Terrell, in Baton Rouge 

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 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.

The woman who eventually found the twins, who also went unidentified, 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.’

The boy wasn’t wearing a shirt and both of the siblings were barefoot, she told KHOU. The kids told police their mother and her boyfriend had left them in a room and forced them to eat and drink their own waste, refusing to let them use the toilet.

Authorities soon tracked down their mother, 40-year-old Zaikiya Duncan, and her boyfriend, 27-year-old Jova Terrell, in Baton Rouge. Both are charged with injury to a child and will be brought back to Houston.

Two 16-year-old twins in Texas were seen on video making a brave escape from imprisonment by their allegedly abusive mother, 40-year-old Zaikiya Duncan (pictured) and her boyfriend

Duncan’s boyfriend, 27-year-old Jova Terrell (pictured) was also arrested

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

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Police set off an Amber Alert for the twins’ five other siblings, ages 7 to 14, who were found safe a day later in Louisiana. The twins said that while it was less than what they received, their 12-year-old twin brothers had also been abused. 

One of the children was found with Duncan and Terrell, while the others were located safe with relatives. All seven have been put in the custody of Child Protective Services.  

Only one child was with the couple when they were arrested. The other four boys were later found safe with relatives in Louisiana. All seven children were placed in Child Protective Service custody, according to authorities.

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