CYPRESS, Texas (KTRK) -- A twin brother & sister were taken to the hospital after they escaped their abusive home barefoot on Tuesday morning.
Their mother, Zaikiya Duncan, 40, & her boyfriend, Jova Terrell, 27, are being charged with injury to a child in Harris County. They were taken into custody Tuesday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, after fleeing with 5 of her other children.
The 16-year-old twin boy & girl went door-to-door looking for help early in the morning.
It is not known how many doors they knocked on before they ended up at the home of a woman in the next neighborhood at 5:30 a.m.
Her doorbell camera caught the twins asking, "Can you help us?" & showing her their handcuffs.
"When they came inside, they were like, 'We are not here to hurt you,'" the woman recalled. "She was shaking with her handcuffs. She was like, 'We are looking for help. We just need help. We just broke out of our handcuffs. Our mom had us handcuffed in the laundry room.'"
The teens told her they were starving & had not eaten in more than a week. The woman gave them a snack & they ate everything she put in front of them.
The woman, an ICU nurse, photographed the wounds on their body. Their wrists were cut from the handcuffs. She noticed scarring on their wrists.
The twins told her they tried to escape the day before, but their mother caught them & locked them back up.
"Give these abusers life in prison, like murderers, because that's ultimately what it's going to lead to & I bet crime would go down," she said. "Kids would not be abused, because they would be scared to go to prison for life."
Duncan & Terrell are expected to be transported back to Harris County on Thursday.
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