Dad locks up 4 children, wife in apartment; kids not allowed to go to school (Uppsala, Sweden)

UNNAMED DAD is arrested on suspicion of keeping his wife and 4 children locked up in their apartment. The children, who range in age from 16 to 22, were not allowed to attend school.

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Father locks up wife, kids
2009-07-13 22:04

Stockholm - A man has been arrested on suspicion of keeping his wife and four teenage and young adult children locked up at home for several years, Swedish police said on Monday.

The case was unravelled at the end of June when police officers were alerted to an altercation at the family's flat in Uppsala, some 70km north-west of Stockholm.

Other details emerged while the police officers were at the flat, police spokesperson Christer Nordstrom told the German Press Agency dpa.

The children, aged 16 to 22, were apparently not allowed to attend school and like their mother were not allowed to leave the flat without being accompanied by the father, Nordstrom said.

Formal charges have yet to be presented against the man. The investigation includes suspicions that he assaulted his wife and unlawfully detained the children, Nordstrom said.

The man and his wife came to Sweden from Iran in 1985 and have Swedish citizenship, as do the children. The family has revisited Iran on numerous occasions. In 2004 the whole family left Sweden and did not return until early this year, Nordstrom said.

Local authorities have launched a separate probe into how the children had been kept out of school for so many years.

- SAPA