Feral child in Surrey!
Two days ago a worried neighbour of Mrs Marjorie Dursley phoned the police after hearing screams from the dog pens, thinking someone had tried to steal the woman's dogs and gotten bitten. Another phone call came from Mr Gruber a few minutes later, begging them to appear at the house immediately.
The police statement concludes: Mr Potter aged 7, nephew of Mr Vernon Dursley and Mrs Petunia Dursley, was found chained in the dog pens of his Aunt's home in Woking. Through questioning it has been found that from the age of two, barely a year that he came to his relatives house after the death of his parents, he has been kept there. The child is now under analysis of paediatric psychologists, and they are hoping that he will be able to re-assimilate into society in the future.
Mrs Margaret Dursley is well known in dog breeding circles and had left to see her relatives over the weekend, leaving Mr Gruber to look after her dogs while she was away. When questioned he had this to tell us.
"It wasn't usual for me to be looking after her dogs, usually the Colonel is the one to do that, but he broke his hip a few weeks ago and is still in hospital. She left me explicit instructions on each cage, telling me not to bother with the covered cages cos they were empty... Brilliant woman she was, knew just about everything about dogs and knew it, never would've taken her for someone like that... I was feeding the dogs, like she told me to, when I heard noises from the covered cages, now this was a dog pen so there was a lot of noise around, but this wasn't a dog noise mind. It sounded like bars rattling, you could see the tarp shaking from where she'd draped it over them cages. So I says to myself 'Rupert you stop standing there like a dolt and got save whatever it is that got caught in there'. Thought it was a bird of something see, but when I pulled off the tarp... There's things that make a guy sick, and that was one of them..." The police have put a block on Mr Gruber's statement at what exactly he saw, however he was able to say this much. "Screamed when the tarp came off, the sun was too bright... I called the police, I didn't know what else to do. I have nightmares about it even now." Mr Gruber is now taking therapy for the
Mrs Dursley has been removed, along with her relatives in their home in Privet Drive and they are being questioned by police. Retired Colonel Fubster, the usual career for her dogs when she was away, has also been taken in for questioning.
One can only wonder at the horrors that this poor child has gone through, what does this say about our child services? Mr Potter hardly shows up apart from a birth certificate and a mention of his parents death in the obituaries, so who decided the one year old baby would be put with such relatives? The neighbours hardly remember any other child in the Dursley's house but their son Dudley. Could this have been prevented?