18-Year-Old Rescued After Being Locked In Room For A Year With Little Food, Water

An 18-year-old girl from Las Vegas has been rescued after she was allegedly locked up in a room with very little food and water for a year.

The teen's mother and grandmother, identified as Addy Gonzales and Maria Pasarin, and another person, named Daniel Omezcua, were arrested on charges of false imprisonment and child abuse. It is unclear how Omezcua is related to the girl, NBC News reported.

The incident came to light after the unidentified teenager managed to escape from her room and sought help from a neighbor on Nov. 4. The girl asked the neighbor for food and water, saying she had been kept locked in her bedroom by her parents, police said.

The teen said she climbed out of the second-floor window by tying clothes together. The distressed girl asked the neighbor "not to tell anyone" that she was spotted and climbed back into her room using a ladder. However, the neighbor alerted the cops.

When the deputies arrived at the scene, they could not enter the house as the residents did not respond to the doorbell. The officers then talked to the teenager from the window of her room. The girl informed them she could not leave as the door did not have a knob and it was locked with a deadbolt lock.

Officers then talked to Gonzales on the phone but she denied keeping her daughter locked in the room and did not allow them to enter the house until she arrived home from work.

Cops saw "a box spring and bed frame" and a bucket "half full of what appeared to be urine and fecal matter" inside the room where the girl was allegedly kept locked. She was removed from the house, ABC 13 reported.

Police believe the teen was kept locked up for a year. She reportedly ate only when her mother returned from work at night and had to use the bucket to relieve herself.

In a similar incident earlier this month, an 8-year-old girl in Germany was rescued after her mother allegedly kept her locked in a room for most of her life. When the officials found the girl, she had no signs of physical mistreatment or malnourishment but was "barely able to climb stairs on her own or navigate uneven ground."