A seven-year-old boy was kept chained up at home for five months by his parents - because they could not afford a nanny.
In an incident that has shocked many people, a seven-year-old boy was kept chained up at home for five months by his parents - because they could not afford a nanny.
Social services and police freed Ilko Todorov after a tip-off from neighbours who claimed they saw him tied to a long steel chain by his leg in the family home in the town of Goce Delchev, Bulgaria.
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Ilko Todorov was shackled "like a dog" each morning before his parents went to work.
"They kept him like a dog," The Sun quoted neighbour Nikifor Ivanov, as saying.
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Ilko, speaking at a foster home, said: "I'm happy here. I miss my mum, but not my dad."
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