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Young boy with Down syndrome, rescued from a locked attic where he was starving, is reunited with the officers who saved him

News admin1 · November 13, 2025 · Comments off

In 2010, a shocking and heartbreaking case emerged from a small Kansas community: a young boy with Down syndrome had been found in the attic of his own home, starving, neglected, and abandoned by the very person who was supposed to care for him. Giovanni “Govi” Eastwood was only six years old at the time, yet his body was frail and underdeveloped, weighing no more than a three-year-old child. His condition was so severe that medical experts later confirmed that he would not have survived much longer if he had not been rescued that night. Govi’s mother, Rachel Perez, had... Continues…