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PORTLAND, Ore. – An Oregon tending said weekday she was shocked to learn that the ascendant of her digit autistic sons has been accused of mistreating the boys by protection them in a darkened room.

Jona Bronson of Tillamook said she'll essay to regain safekeeping of the boys she mitt with John Eckhart, who was inactive along with his underway lover on charges of outlaw imprisonment and mistreatment.

Police said the boys — ages 5 and 7 — were institute weekday in a Vancouver, Wash., housing in a room whose entranceway had been replaced by a makeshift, slatted barrier.

When Officer Missy Skeeter showed up, digit of the boys stuck a hand between the slats, personnel said.

"What am I supposed to do? Let them separate around the house?" a personnel inform quoted theologist as saying. "...They're autistic."

He and Alayna Higdon, 26, appeared in suite weekday and are due backwards in New April. Lawyers for the digit hit not commented.

A personnel inform quoted by The Oregonian newspaper said the boys were in diapers, perception of urine, and they could exclusive moan, not talk. They appeared to share a mattress in a room with digit window awninged by a receipts and a blanket, it said. The rest of the housing was untidy and dirty, with little food.

Law enforcement officers notified child goodness workers in Feb that the kinsfolk in the housing was "overwhelmed," Department of Social and Health Services spokeswoman Sherry Hill said Thursday. But during a follow-up contact, the kinsfolk declined an substance of services.

There were no info most what led to the conclusion the kinsfolk was overwhelmed and what services were offered.

Vancouver Police spokeswoman Kim Kapp said she couldn't immediately find a inform from Feb most the family. The adventurer County sheriff's department didn't convey a call.

Bronson said weekday she mitt theologist — they hadn't mated — because he was controlling and had a take problem, but she gave up the children because she didn't poverty to stop their schooling and routines.

"If I had known, I would hit condemned the boys," she said. "I change at the instance I was doing what was in their best interest."

After gift up custody, Bronson touched in with her parents and got a job in Tillamook. Since then, she's gotten mated and has a 16-month-old son.

Bronson said she saw the boys Sunday for the prototypal instance in a assemblage but got no suggestion of mistreatment.

"Their material was dirty, that's all," she said.

Washington land officials said a fix miss at the Byzantine provided information that led a caseworker to meet the housing on Monday evening, but modify finished there were sounds from the apartment, nobody came to the door.

Skeeter and another officers arrived the incoming day on what's described as a goodness check.

Police said digit another boys were in the housing — digit a 9-year-old son of Higdon and the another an 11-month-old son of theologist and Higdon. All quaternary were settled in foster care, and a someone judge module eventually decide their custody, Hill said.

Privacy laws prevented revealing of another details. Bronson said she hadn't gotten a inform weekday on the information of her sons.

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