Police investigate case of neglected and retarded boy

Czech police are investigating the parents of a four-year-old boy from the Moravian town of Frydek Mistek for suspected criminal neglect. The boy, suffering from epilepsy, cannot talk, cannot chew food and is used to drinking water from the floor. The parents were recently evicted from their flat and had been living with the child in a makeshift shelter by a stream. According to a report by the Czech Press Agency (CTK), the boy lacks basic hygiene skills and does not react when somebody calls him by his name. A spokeswoman for the police told CTKthat the child was now with a foster family.