Police are investigating how four adults--three males and one female--came to be chained up and locked away in the basement of a house in Northeast Philadelphia Saturday.
According to investigators in the 15th District, the four were found behind a steel door in a basement room at 4724 Longshore Avenue around noon.
A police spokesperson said that the adults were malnourished and all had the mental capacities of children. All four were transported to Frankford Hospital and are in stable condition.
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