Rudy Farias’s mom has been accused of making him ‘play daddy,’ treating him like a slave, and making him take drugs during the eight years she claimed the boy was missing.
The 25-year-old met with authorities for the first time since he was found outside a church last week after he allegedly went missing in 2015.
He was seen hiding his face under a blanket as he was escorted out of a Houston hotel by a community leader Quanell X, who became emotional as he described the conversation with the young man.
Rudy reportedly said his mother had been drugging him and sexually abusing him for years. He only spoke up after authorities separated him fom his mother, Quanell said.
Footage posted by independent journalist Grizzy’s Hood News shows Rudy being led outside the hotel where he and his mother Janie Santana were meeting with investigators.
Rudy Farias was seen hiding his face under a blanket as he was escorted out of a Houston hotel by a community leader
Community activist Quanell X spoke to Rudy, who reportedly said his mother had been drugging him and sexually abusing him for years
Farias reportedly only spoke up after authorities separated him fom his mother, Quanell said
Farias said his mother said that she would make him sleep in the bed with her and ‘make him play daddy’ before he ran away.
‘I was tired of living like a salve,’
‘This is sick,’ Quanell said. ‘Based on what that bot told me, I don’t see why she’s not in handcuffs right now.’
‘He was petrified but the minute he was by himself he calmed down,’ the activist added. ‘I believe she was drugging the hell out of this kid.’
Farias was found unresponsive on June 29 after a good Samaritan called police to report an unresponsive man slumped outside a church.
Cops said they managed to identify Rudy by the necklace he was wearing, which belonged to his late brother, and called his mother Janie Santana to tell her they had found her son after eight long years.
Santana claimed he had blood in his hair and had been clearly badly abused and beaten.
Santana shared details of Rudy’s condition after the alleged reunion.
‘Rudy is in pretty bad shape, he has cuts, soft tissue tumors, small openings and swelling on the soles of his feet, along with bruising, old and new cuts/scrapes on his body, old dry blood on his head and hair, he has very very dark complexion now almost unrecognizable.
God only knows what he has endured during his time away from home.’
A missing person note detailed what he was wearing at the time that he went missing. It also mentioned that he suffered from depression, PTSD and anxiety
The note also mentions that he is in a lot of pain.
It continues: ‘He flinches if you try to touch him or hug him thinking we are going to strike him.
‘He thinks his name is Julio Torres and he is 14 now.’
Farias’s mother said they have tried to speak to him, but he only says a few words and adopts the fetal position.
But a video showing a disheveled young man at a restaurant near the church were Rudy was found has sparked questions, as have neighbors who day Rudy was never missing.
Kisha Ross, who lives on the same street as Rudy’s mother, said she had never heard that Rudy was missing, despite being friendly with his family.
‘He used to come in my garage, chill with my cousin, son, and daughter,’ a confused Ross told ABC 7, adding that Rudy liked to hang out in the woods by himself.
Broderick Conley, Ross’s cousin, also said he used to hang out with Rudy regularly – ‘laughing’ and having ‘good times.’
Making the case even stranger, Houston authorities have said a ‘family member’ had called police in 2018 to report that Farias had been staying behind their residence. Officers responded to the scene at the time but did not find Farias.
As questions emerged about Rudy’s whereabouts over the last eight years, his mother deleted a GoFundMe account she had created for medical costs.