A 17-year-old Arizona girl who was reportedly held captive by her mother and stepfather told police that she hadn't seen her sisters in two years.
The teen, who wore a handmade calendar in a purse around her neck, said she was kept separate from her two younger siblings.
"I haven't seen anyone in two years. Look, I haven't showered since the 19th of September," she said, pointing to the calendar.
Police told CBS that the three girls were shocked and overjoyed to see each other for the first time in almost 24 months.
"They touched each other's faced, hugged and commented on how they all have changed since they last saw each other," the police report described.
Further investigation has revealed the troubling details of the three girls' captivity - they were reportedly held hostage in their bedrooms by 32-year-old mother Sophia Richter and her husband Fernando Richter, 34. Music blared from the rooms constantly, and the doorways were practically soundproofed. The girls ate, slept and even used the bathroom in their bedrooms, USA Today reported. Video cameras were stationed at their bedsides all day.
Her 12 and 13-year-old sisters managed to escape last week through their bedroom window and alerted a neighbor of the atrocities happening within the walls of the home after they saw their intoxicated stepfather squatting through the broken half of their door, wielding a knife.
According to the Tucson police report, the stepfather broke the door to their bedroom.
"After a bang, they observed the bottom half of their door cave in and break," the report obtained by USA Today read. "Through the break they observed [their stepfather] to be squatting by the open space, holding a knife near his chest and yelling at them."
The two girls fled through the window to a neighbor's house, then called 911.
"We were just standing there and you see, my mom's husband was trying to open the door, but he broke it in half - and me and my sister got out the window," one of the girls told the 911 operator, according to CBS.
At first, police couldn't locate the residence because there was no address posted. Once they found the house, they called for the residents to answer the door so loudly that neighbors came out to see what was going on. About 10 minutes later, the mother emerged with "bloodshot watery eyes," and an "odor of intoxicants," the report stated. The husband "stumbled" out a few minutes later, and was slurring his words. When police asked who else was in the house, the man replied, "Hazel and Thumper," referring to the family's two dogs.
The daughters claimed they hadn't seen their biological father in years.
"We used to visit our dad, but something happened and we were no longer allowed to visit him. I haven't talked to my dad for three years," one of the younger girls told a 911 operator.
The three sisters are now in a Child Protection Services group home, and will most likely be reunited with their father in the coming weeks, CBS reported.
The parents currently face a number of child abuse, neglect and imprisonment charges. They are scheduled to appear in court early next week.
