A 32-year-old emaciated man, weighing just 68 pounds at 5 feet, 9 inches tall, was allegedly held captive by his stepmother in a Waterbury residence in conditions described by police as worse than a jail cell since he was pulled out of school 20 years ago after school officials allegedly began raising red flags to the Department of Children and Families.

A wildfire had threatened dozens of buildings, including an elementary school in Gloucester County, New Jersey. The New Jersey Forest Fire Service first reported the blaze—dubbed the “Scotland Run Wildfire”—in the area of Pennsylvania Ave.

The numbers are chilling. A 32-year-old man, standing five feet nine inches tall and weighing just 68 pounds, was forced to live in an 8-by-9-foot room for 20 years. All because his 56-year-old stepmother said so,