The 47-year-old Anatoly Titsky built a “maximum security correctional facility” in the depths of a forest for his wife and five children. For almost two years, the sadist held members of his family inside the prison fenced off with barbed wire. Watchdogs were guarding the camp night and day.
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| Anatoly Titsky (photo by Zhizn.ru newspaper) |
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Titsky dug a shelter in the ground after finding a place deep in the woods. He then enclosed it by a barbwire fence and attached the small red flags to a line around the perimeter. He also put up a sign that read “Restricted Area.” To keep his next of kin within the confines of an improvised concentration camp, Titsky chained up 20 ferocious watchdogs around the perimeter.
“The dogs would start barking every time his wife or children approached those red flags. The prisoners didn’t have a single chance of getting away from that place,” said Nadezhda Shestakova, head of the juvenile delinquency section at the police department in the town of Tashtagol.
The police learned of the forest prison by chance. A local mushroom picker turned up at the police office one day and told them a horrifying story.
“I had a real close shave out there. The whole place looks like a prison compound. Those red flags marking the limits, the dogs foaming at the mouth… More importantly, I spotted children behind the barbed wire. I reckon some kind of a child molester may be hiding out in that lair,” the eyewitness said.
His story came as a shock. The police team set off on a trip to the forest within minutes.
“We spent the whole day in the forest searching for that prison. We couldn’t get in. Those dogs kept us at bay. So we got back to the police station to pick up our submachine guns. We had to storm the concentration camp; otherwise the dogs could have torn us into shreds. We found nobody by Titsky hiding underground when we climbed inside. As it turned out, the father saw the armed men closing in and ordered his children to run away into the forest. ‘Take cover or you’re gonna get shot!’ he cried out to scare them away,” said Dmitry Altunin, one of the local policemen who took part in the raid.
Once the policemen got inside the shelter, they felt nauseous at the sight of nightmare. The air was thick with a stench of rotting garbage. Pieces of dirty rags were scattered around the floor. The kids used the rags to keep themselves warm during the winter. A family of seven, their chickens and geese had to share a small room measuring 15 square meters. There was no furniture in the room save for a homemade table and a double-deck bed. The policemen found out that the four girls slept on the upper deck. Titsky, his 17-year-old son and his wife used the lower deck.
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