BUGALLON, Pangasinan鈥擳he police聽on Friday聽rescued a 33-year-old mentally challenged woman who had been chained at her home in Barangay (village) Umanday for seven years.
The woman鈥檚 left forearm was strapped to a metal chain in their house when responding police from the Women and Children鈥檚 Protection Desk found her at聽11 a.m.聽She had been kept in that condition by her own family, police said.
Chief Insp. Joseph Imperial, Bugallon chief of police, said聽she was brought to the Bugallon Community Hospital聽to treat her infected wound which was caused by the rusty metal chain.