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Rescued in Mexico: 2 sisters locked up at home for 30 years
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An apparent combination of schizophrenia, marginalization and fear caused two Mexican sisters to be kept locked up for 30 years in a room of their house in the northern state of Chihuahua.
The inspector general of the State Human Rights Commission, or CEDH, in the Parral area, Amin Corral Shaar, told Efe Friday that the two women are Francisca and Luz Ofelia Valles Campos, ages 35 and 38, respectively.
When they got to the house, the authorities had to force the door open to the room where the victims were hidden, supposedly "of their own free will," according to the CEDH.
"The room smelled because they hadn't washed in years" and the two women were "only covered with a blanket," he said.
They were suffering from different infections and one of the sisters was taken to a public clinic in Allende to be treated for ulcerated injuries on different parts of her body.
In the remote area where the house stands, "ignorance prevails" and some 30 years ago the rumor was going around that local drug traffickers "were going to kidnap all the little boys and girls."
Fear was also stirred up when one of the biggest shipments of marijuana in the history of Mexico was seized, nearly 10,000 tons, in an operation associated with the murder of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique Camarena.
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