Woman, 19, sues adoptive parents for 'keeping her in a dungeon and using her as ... trends now

Woman, 19, sues adoptive parents for 'keeping her in a dungeon and using her as ... trends now
Woman, 19, sues adoptive parents for 'keeping her in a dungeon and using her as ... trends now

Woman, 19, sues adoptive parents for 'keeping her in a dungeon and using her as ... trends now

A Chinese-born woman has filed a lawsuit against New Hampshire government agencies and her adoptive parents claiming they used her as a slave and subjected her to confinement and abuse for years. 

The lawsuit was filed in New Boston, New Hampshire, last week and names Olivia Atkocaitis, 19, as the plaintiff and her parents, Thomas and Denise Atkocaitis, as the defendants.  

Olivia was kept in a 'dungeon' and beaten, starved, and forced to work for years, according to the 70-page lawsuit which also names the New Boston police, a nonprofit Massachusetts adoption agency, and the local school district.

This is the 8-by-8 foot room Olivia Atkocaitis was kept in inside the home's 'dungeon'

This is the 8-by-8 foot room Olivia Atkocaitis was kept in inside the home's 'dungeon' 

Thomas Atkocaitis

Denise Atkocaitis

Thomas and Denise Atkocaitis were arrested in 2018 on abuse charges

Olivia's suit claims the agencies cited ignored her situation even after one of her siblings, one of the Atkocaitis' biological children, reported the abuse in the home. 

In 2011, one of the couple's teenagers told a school counselor Olivia - who was eight at the time - had been whipped, starved, and pushed down the stairs. 

Olivia, the suit states, was the only child not permitted to go to school. 

Police were sent to the home and photographed the 8-by-8 foot room where the girl was kept and the incident was reported to the Division for Children, Youth and Families. 

The couple's teenager was removed from the house but Olivia remained. 

'It did not offer the same protections to Olivia, a younger child, a girl, a racial and ethnic minority, even after Thomas and Denise Atkocaitis admitted to police that they had locked her in a basement dungeon,' the lawsuit reads.

Denise Atkocatis in a Facebook photo

Denise Atkocatis in a Facebook photo

Thomas and Denise were initially arrested and charged in 2018 after Olivia escaped.

At the time, authorities said the New England couple locked the girl in the 'dungeon' room that was rigged with an alarm if she tried to escape. 

The small room had less than 100 square feet and one window that was covered with chicken-wire mesh. 

Olivia was let out only to do chores for the family, including caring for the animals on the property and cleaning

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