A man starved and tortured his 12-year-old son: he had him tied with a dog collar.

Eduardo's neck bruise was one of the many scars and marks that he had on the body: the investigators discovered that Luis Posso and his wife, Dayana Medina Flores, had been starving the boy and had him imprisoned in the bathroom of a motel with a dog collar emitting electric shocks.

Posso, 32, and Medina Flores, 25, were arrested immediately after Eduardo's death. last Friday they were officially charged with his murder, and for neglect and abuse of children, the site has reported WBIW.

The last days of Eduardo were spent with his family in a motel in Bloomington, Indiana. While his father and mother-in-law were dating their brethren to distribute leaflets of a traveling circus, he was confined to the bathroom and was hungry.

Eduardo's sister, aged 9, explained to the Indiana police that the boy was thin and had stopped eating and that in his last days, despite his extreme weakness, he had says that "I just wanted to juggle and be free".

An autopsy showed that Eduardo weighed between 22 and 25 kilos at the time of his death. The police found chains, ropes, a dog collar, padlocks and security cameras in the bathroom at the Economy Inn motel, where he was confined.

In addition, investigators found videos of Eduardo's tortures on the cell phones of his father and mother-in-law, in which one could see the boy tied with a chain to the shower railing.

In an SMS in Spanish, Posso told Medina Flores last April that Eduardo "had almost left the chains".

Posso and Medina Flores claimed that Eduardo was the worst of the boys. One of the children of the couple, five years old, said that the "child" was bad and was not part of the family ".

But Eduardo's mother, Aurea Esmerlda García, said that "no one was paying attention" to her complaints of ill-treatment. The paternal grandmother of the boy also reported cases of negligence towards him, but the authorities decided that As it was a family dedicated to circus life, bruises were expected.