What Percentage of American Teens are Locked in Basements and Bathrooms, Anyway?

How many young people, do you think, are kept locked in basements and bathrooms? Because it sure seems like a lot-and now there’s another one, a 14-year-old Arizona girl who’s been locked in her bathroom for two months. (In what seems a notable yet underdeveloped bit of news in the AP report, this bathroom did not have running water.)

Also, if you’d like to feel old, the girl’s stepmother was 31 and her father, Scott Bass, was 33. And: “when police arrived at the girl’s home to interview Scott Bass, he thought the girl was still in the bathroom and was ‘visibly surprised’ when he unlocked the door and she was gone.” And.

The girl had escaped through the attic and rode her bike to a nearby movie theater, where a concerned couple gave her $50, police said. She then rode about 13 miles to a Phoenix strip mall and bought water, food, a backpack and clothes because she hadn’t been allowed to change for weeks, Samudio said.

After that, the girl rode to a coffee shop in Scottsdale, where she asked an employee to call police.