Boy Behind Wall
U.S. Marshalls and Illinois State Police discovered a boy who had been missing for nearly two years during a raid on this home, seen Saturday Sept. 5, 2009, in rural Franklin County, Ill. Six-year-old Richard Chekevdia was allegedly being kept in a secret room of the house, owned by his maternal grandmother Diane Dobbs. Dobbs is charged with aiding in a kidnapping, while Richard's mother Shannon Wilfong faces charges of child abduction. Richard remains in the custody of the Department of Children and Family Services, although legal custody has already been granted to his father Mike Chekevdia. (AP Photo/The Southern Illinoisan, Alan Rogers)
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