THE mother of a teenage boy who said he was locked in closets over four years was charged with 29 counts of child abuse for allegedly torturing and imprisoning him.

The mother of a teenage boy who said he was locked in closets over four years was charged with 29 counts of child abuse for allegedly torturing and imprisoning him.

A WOMAN was arrested after her 14-year-son told authorities he escaped from a home where he had spent most of the past four years locked in a wardrobe.