Last week, a mysterious disappearance made national news, causing a huge sensation and attention.
A 17-year-old boy in Texas disappeared while walking his dog for eight years, and was only recently found!
When the police found him, he passed out on the street, covered in injuries and looked like he had been horribly abused.
The police immediately informed his mother and reunited them. His mother rushed to the scene as soon as she learned the news, she was very excited, and she was worried about the unknown encounter of her child in these eight years.
I don't know what he went through, and why he appeared scarred eight years later, and even his consciousness is not clear.
The mother happily accompanies her child, who has been missing for eight years, and she thinks that the child's return is simply a miracle, although he cannot even say a word.
People are saddened by the experience of the victims and moved by the reunion of mother and son after eight years.
But a few days later, when the 25-year-old victim faced the police alone, his statement plunged the whole thing into a twisted and dark giant reversal!
He says that he has never disappeared, but has been drugged and imprisoned, sexually assaulted and abused, like a slave, and the true identity of his abuser is even more incredible...
A man lies on the ground in front of a church in Houston, Texas, on June 29, in a state of concern.
A well-wisher passing by called the police for help, and when the police arrived, they found that the man turned out to be Rudy Farias, who had been missing for 8 years!
He wears a necklace left behind by his late brother that proves his identity.
Police immediately informed his mother, Janie Santana, that the church where Rudy had passed out was not far from his home, only 8 miles (12 kilometers), and that his mother quickly arrived at the scene, faster than the fire station could go.
But you can also imagine how eager and excited a mother must be to finally hear from her son after eight years.
In the past eight years, she has probably been fantasizing about this moment of reunion every moment.
Eight years ago, at about 6:30 p.m. on March 6, 2015, 17-year-old Rudy led his two dogs for a walk, but he never returned.
One of the dogs returned home on its own, and Rudy's mother sensed something was wrong and immediately called the police.
When another dog was finally found, Rudy could not be found, and the mother submitted a disappearance report to the authorities, in which she explained the critical situation of her son.
This poor child not only has an injury to his right leg, but his mental health has been severely tested.
His beloved brother was killed in a motorcycle accident in 2011, and his father died by suicide just months before he disappeared.
A photo of Rudy and his brother
Rudy, who lost two loved ones in just a few years, suffers from depression, PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) and anxiety, and at one point attempted suicide.
He went for a walk that day and most likely didn't take his medication on time.
He also suffers from asthma and goes out without his inhaler.
Such a minor in a worrying physical and mental condition suddenly disappeared mysteriously, and her mother was so worried that she fainted!
Not only did they report the incident to the police, but they also contacted search and rescue organizations, and everyone was worried about Rudy's safety.
The search for Rudy lasted for a long time, and the search and rescue personnel tried their best to wade through the rain-soaked fields to find the boy, but these efforts were fruitless, and finally the search and rescue efforts were forced to end because there were too few clues.
For the grieving mother, this is a desperate outcome.
His mom didn't give up until two years after Rudy's disappearance, and she gave a television interview saying there was something suspicious about her son's disappearance and that she feared for her safety.
In 2018, police received a report from a relative of Rudy that they saw Rudy living behind a relative's house, and the police immediately dispatched, but found no trace of Rudy.
The failure of hope again and again should not be a good thing for Rudy's mother, who seems to outsiders to be too difficult.
But who would have thought that just recently, this mysterious disappearance case turned around, and Rudy, who had disappeared for 8 years, suddenly appeared and was reunited with his mother!
After seeing his mother, Rudy, who woke up, seemed to finally have the backbone, and he refused to be sent to the hospital for treatment, as long as he had his mother to take care of him.
A few days later, Rudy's mom released a statement updating some of Rudy's situation.
"Rudy was in very bad condition, he had cuts, soft tissue tumors, small wounds and swelling on the soles of his feet, bruises, cuts and abrasions all over his body, some new and some old, and dried blood on his head and hair.
He is now very, very dark, and people are a little unrecognizable.
It's hard to imagine what he went through during his time away from home. ”
In the eyes of Rudy's mother, the child is obviously the result of a long period of horrific abuse, and someone may even brainwash him.
"If you tried to touch him or hug him, he would back down, thinking we were going to hit him.
He feels his name as Julio Torres and is now 14. ”
According to her mother, Rudy even lost her speech ability and was unable to communicate.
They tried to talk to him, and he replied with only a few simple words, curling himself up like a fetus, still desperately insecure.
Mom also filmed Rudy curled up in the hospital, which made people feel very uncomfortable.
Although there are many unanswered questions, such as where Rudy has been and what he has experienced over the years, the biggest surprise is when people come back.
The media across the United States regarded the "return of Rudy" as a great miracle, and people poured out their prayers for him to spend a good time with his family and heal the wounds of the past eight years.
"Oh my God, poor young man."
"It's really good that he was found, and it's heartbreaking to think about what he's been through. I hope he can get the best help and care to live a life that truly belongs to him from now on. ”
"What terrible things happened to this young man over the years, we may never know. At least he's safe now.
Hopefully, he will be treated and live a peaceful life. ”
Originally, the matter should have come to an end here, after all, the child has been found, and the next step is to let him recover, investigate his past whereabouts, and see what he has experienced in the past eight years of disappearance.
Some media went to interview their neighbors, and at first they may just want to understand the reactions of the people around them, but they didn't expect that the neighbors broke the news, which directly made the direction of things weird.
The neighbor actually said: Rudy has never disappeared!
According to neighbors who live on the same street as Rudy's mother, she has a good relationship with Rudy's family, but she has never heard of Rudy's disappearance.
She was stunned when she heard the news, wasn't Rudy all the time? How come it's been missing for eight years.
"Rudy would often come to my garage and play with my cousin, son and daughter."
She also said that Rudy likes to hang out in the woods alone.
Neighbors interviewed
The neighbor's cousin also said that he used to hang out with Rudy, and the two always laughed and had fun together.
Such a statement is shocking enough, and another neighbor, who did not want to be named, told the media directly:
Not only is Rudy not missing, he has been living with his mother!
Rudy's mother refuted the claim, saying that the neighbor saw her nephew, not her son, Rudy.
But after seeing the nephew's photo, the neighbors insisted that it was Rudy who saw it, not this nephew.
These statements made things more chaotic, and the truth seemed to fall into a fog, and at this moment, Rudy himself spoke, and his words made the story take a more bizarre and dark reversal, like a bombshell directly hitting everyone.
On the left is Rudy
Some friends may wonder, didn't Rudy's mother say that Rudy can't talk yet?
After the police separated Rudy from his mother, Rudy "miraculously" regained his ability to communicate, asking to speak alone with Quanell X, a consultant who was present that day, a mediator between prominent local activists, family members and police.
It was in this private conversation that Rudy revealed to Quanell the shocking truth about his side.
Not only did he never disappear, it was his mother who kept him at home all these years: drugged him and sexually abused him!
Quanell
In Quanell's paraphrasing, some uncomfortable details are also revealed.
For eight years, Rudy's mother kept her son sleeping in the same bed as her, letting Rudy "play daddy" and forcing her son to have intimate contact with her undressed.
"He (Rudy) said he didn't like it, he would try to slip out of bed, but his mom told him he had to be her husband."
According to Rudy, his mom would also let him bathe her.
Sometimes, his mother would drug him and make him take hallucinogens.
If he disobeyed, she would lock him in the room again and again as punishment.
She would even take him to where she worked and keep him there until she left work and the two of them went home together.
Rudy and mom's home
Rudy said that he was tired of "living like a slave" before deciding to escape from his mother's control, and this "mysterious disappearance and reappearance" was actually the result of his escape by stealing his mother's car.
It's unclear exactly when Rudy fled, but Quanell said Rudy had his mother's credit card with him.
"If he's been missing for eight years, how can he have a credit card issued two years ago in his pocket?"
In Quanell's words, it was Rudy's mother who planned all this to hide her son, and she told him that he had to hide because the police were looking for him and wanted to put him in jail.
In fact, after Rudy walked his dog in 2015, he returned home on his own within two days, but his mother coaxed and coerced him into saying that he would be arrested by the police if he did not hide, and at the same time hid him and abused him.
Eight years passed like this, and he really couldn't bear to choose to flee before tearing all these lies.
No one could have imagined that the disappearance that everyone was happy about would turn out to be like this, and after integrating all the accounts, Rudy's mother should be the initiator of the abuse of her son.
But there are still many doubts, first of all, Rudy does not seem to be imprisoned for a long time as he described it, because many neighbors and relatives have seen him during this time.
Relevant media coverage
And he had previously met with Houston police on the street, but because the name and date of birth he provided were false, the police were misled and did not realize that he was the "missing Rudy", so they did not take action.
What's even weirder is that although Rudy told the counselor that he was imprisoned and abused by his mother, he is still with her these days, and he has not reported it to the police to formally charge his mother.
According to a recent police statement, "Rudy is safe and he chose to be with his mother, a 25-year-old adult man. ”
The police have not brought any charges against Rudy's mother, as they are still investigating whether the allegations are true.
As the subject of investigation, Rudy's mother does not seem to care at all, and in the past two days, even neighbors have photographed her chatting calmly at the door of the house, and the words seem to be connotating the police.
"When he (Rudy) first disappeared, he didn't report it to the police, and the police might have wanted to say he had committed a crime, but he didn't.
Now the police want to arrest me again because they say I am hiding him (Rudy). ”
She looks confident and feels that she has done nothing wrong, does this mean that there are other unknown secrets in this case?
The case is not over yet, but many netizens have been shockingly reversed.
"It's really messy. Whatever happened, hopefully Rudy would get the help he deserved. ”
"I feel that there is still a lot of unexposed material in this story."
"I guess the story will get even more outrageous in the next few days."
As netizens said, no matter how this matter will develop in the future, Rudy, who has been forced to be involved in these things since eight years ago, is the most pitiful.
He was not yet an adult, lost his brother and father at a young age, and faced a potentially sadistic mother while suffering great psychological trauma.
This matter has now aroused great attention, I hope the police will investigate the truth as soon as possible and ensure that Rudy has a safe and healthy living environment.