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Parents charged after 6-year-old found locked naked in cage in Philadelphia

Officials were told that the child's mother would lock her son in a dog cage when she left home

Michelle Campbell, 30, and Paul Weber, 31, were charged with endangering the welfare of a child over the weekend(Image: Philadelphia Police Department )

Two people have been charged after police found a six-year-old boy locked in a cage inside of a Philadelphia home on Friday.

Police were called to a home on Glenview Street on Friday after a neighbor alerted them to two young girls who were standing outside of the home in the rain.

The neighbor said the children, 4 and 5, were wearing nothing but diapers and were yelling for their parents.

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The police found the girls outside when they arrived and discovered a naked six-year-old boy locked in a dog cage inside of the house.

The child's mother would reportedly often leave the boy in the cage when she left home.

Michelle Campbell, 30, and Paul Weber, 31, were charged with endangering the welfare of a child over the weekend, police said. The couple are believed to be the children's parents.

Two other adults were also inside the home at the time: an 80-year woman in a wheelchair, believed to be the children's grandmother, and a man in his 40s, believed to be an uncle.

Police said the investigation is ongoing.

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