Tenerife: The 5-year-old German boy whose complaint resulted in the death of his mother and brother

ADEJE, Spain.- The police of

Spain

Found the body of a German woman and her ten year old son in a cave in Tenerife the day before yesterday. And all thanks to the youngest son, Jonas, 5 years old.

When they found the boy on a remote path, he was nervous and full of mud. He spoke in German and was not in his place. Jonah escaped from a cave where he had arrived with his family last Tuesday.

He had been for a week in the small town of Adeje, south of the Spanish island of Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, where he flew from Germany accompanied by his mother and his brother Jacob, aged 10 years old.

They were going to meet their father, Thomas, to spend the holidays together. On the same Tuesday, a neighbor found the boy about 4 kilometers from Adeje. And although she did not understand a word of what the little boy had said, he did everything possible to find out what was wrong and why he was lost.

According to the survey, the family went for a walk on Tuesday morning. The father led the walk in a cave hidden between two ravines. According to the boy's testimony, Thomas began to beat the mother, who fell to the floor, unconscious. Jonah saw blood and said that his older brother, Jacob, had tried to mediate.

Jonah escaped in shock and, although he was able to tell the story to the police, he could not tell the way to the cave.

"It's amazing that such a little boy ran into the area where he was found.If that had not been for him, we would have heard nothing about this." history, "said the Mayor of Adeje, José Miguel Rodríguez, according to a Spanish media outlet.

From there, the local police launched a search device. They found the father who had badured that the last time he had seen his wife and eldest son, they were alive.

However, the device yesterday located the bodies of both in the cave that spoke Jonah.

According to the investigative sources explained, the two presented several traumas.

While the police were investigating what had happened, Jonas was protected by social services while waiting for a family member to claim him.

His father is in custody and will go to court today. According to local media, Thomas and his wife were separated. While he lived in Adeje, she stayed in Germany with the boys.

BBC World