A 9-year-old boy has been rescued from his father’s utility van in eastern France, where he was locked up for a year and a half. The child was found malnourished and unable to walk in the village of Hagenbach. Authorities were alerted by a neighbor. The boy was discovered naked and covered by a blanket on a mound of trash. The father claimed he locked up the child to prevent him from being sent to a psychiatric hospital. Both the father and his partner are facing preliminary charges.
[Context: The boy was found locked up in a van after being missing for a year and a half.]
[Fact Check: The child was found in a van, not in a house as reported in some initial news.]
