Affidavit alleges severe abuse of missing Adopted boy By DAN ELLIOTT, AP

Affidavit alleges severe abuse of missing adopted boy
By DAN ELLIOTT, AP
15 hours ago
http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20110310/US.Adopted.Boys.Missing/

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — One of two boys who had been missing for years before authorities were notified was denied food, spanked, forced to run up and down stairs and rolled up tightly in blankets "like a burrito" as punishment in the home of their adoptive parents, an adoptive brother claimed in a statement to investigators.

Austin Eugene Bryant often grew so hungry that he scavenged food from a garbage can, an arrest warrant affidavit quotes the adoptive brother as saying.

Austin and his biological brother, Edward Dylan Bryant, disappeared from their adoptive parents' home in Monument, Colo., by late 2003, El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa said Thursday. Austin would have been 7 and Edward 11 at the time.