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Neighbour kidnaps boys, 14, and tortures them for three days in dungeon as punishment for stealing tools from his garage
A MONSTER neighbour kidnapped two schoolboys and tortured them for three days in his hidden cellar dungeon as punishment for allegedly stealing tools from his garage.
The severely traumatised 14-year-olds have been rescued from their hellhole prison in Ukraine where they had been kept locked up without food or water.
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The victims, identified only by their first names of Dima and Andrey, were tortured in the central city of Kryvyi Rih.
Both victims had lost sense of time and given up hope of salvation before they were dramatically freed by shocked cops after an anonymous tip-off, reports said.
Police video shows Dima and Andrey released from the cellar during a rescue operation after spending three days locked in the basement.
The dehydrated and starving schoolboys were so terrified and exhausted that it took several hours for them to fully realise their ordeal had ended, cops said.
The teens told detectives they were kidnapped by a 36-year-old neighbour, who owns the basement.
Police spokeswoman, Hanna Starchevska, told local media: “On Sunday, the man lured the boys into his garage.
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“There, he forced them down in the cellar and beat them up before putting black rubbish bags on their heads and locking them.”
During the next few days, the thug reportedly kept his victims without food or water, regularly battering them with a baseball bat and torturing them.
In the process, he hacked off a piece of one trapped victim's ear and tried to chop off the toes of the second boy with a kitchen knife, say investigators.
The neighbour confessed in full after being detained and confronted with the bloody evidence, according to the law enforcement report.
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He claimed that "the boys stole some tools from his garage and he decided to punish them".
Police launched a criminal case for kidnapping and torture against the monster who was taken into custody.
He faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted.
Dima and Andrey were hospitalised and remain under constant medical monitoring.
Andrey Grigorenko, the head doctor of the Kryvyi Rih City Hospital #8 said: “The boys’ condition is moderate.
"They suffer from a concussion and have bruises all over their bodies.
“Both of them are receiving counselling.”
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Residents in the neighbourhood expressed their shock following the mutilation of the lads.
Roman, a man living next door, said of the thug: “He looked like a good man.
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