By Katie Leslie
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A malnourished teenager, found wandering and confused in a California bus depot, told authorities he spent the last four years locked in a room at his parents’ Georgia home.
At 5 feet 3 inches tall, Mitch Comer weighed just 97 pounds; his skin nearly translucent. His younger sisters told authorities they hadn’t seen him in two years, though they lived in the same Dallas house. Neighbors said they didn’t know the family had a son.
Comer was discovered last week by a Los Angeles security officer who believed he looked too young and frail to be alone, authorities said. He told the officer his stepfather, Paul Comer, had put him on a bus in Mississippi on his 18th birthday, but he didn’t know why.
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