UK Boy Kidnapped by Mom and Taken to Commune Is Found in France After 6 Years – Now a Teen, Alex Batty Escaped Through Mountain Passes
A British family’s painful saga came to an end this week after 6 years of suffering and wondering about the whereabouts of Alex Batty.
The boy who was kidnapped by his own mother six years ago, while on vacation in Spain, and – his family says – was ‘brainwashed’ into living in a Commune.
Batty has now been found in France, where authorities say that Alex’s family have confirmed his identity.
Batty, who is now 17 years old, was found in Revel, near Toulouse, France, when a driver spotted the teenager looking lost and haggard by the side of a road, and drove him to a police station.
CBS News reported:
“The teen told the driver that he’d been living in an alternative community with his mother,
