Man Is Kept In a Cage For 40 Years By His Mother

A mentally disabled Chinese man has spent more than 40 years locked in a cage by his 80-year-old mother, who has appealed for somebody to take care of him when she passes away. According to the Daily Mail, 48-year-old Peng Weiqing has been kept in the cage in his mother’s Zhengzhou home, in central China’s Henan Province, since he was 6 years old. Peng Waimei, Weiqing’s mother, says that she only treated her son this way to protect him. Weiqing suffered a series of health issues as a child, including high fever, which left him brain-damaged. Waimei and her late husband have been feeding their son through the bars of the cage ever since. Weiqing also suffered severe epileptic seizures at the age of six. They could not afford medical treatment, so Waimei’s husband built a series of cages that expanded as Weiqing grew older to prevent him from hurting himself