A teenager who has been missing for over two years has been found alive in a closet of a child pornography suspect in west Germany. Police were searching a home of a 44-year-old man suspected of distributing child pornography when they stumbled on the boy.
"The officers discovered a boy in the closet. An investigation showed this was a 15-year old boy who has been missing for a long time," the Recklinghausen police said in a statement. The boy remains under police protection and has not been identified for legal reasons. The police spokesperson said the 44-year-old man and another older man who was also in the apartment at the time were arrested.
During the search, a police sniffer dog trained to detect electronic devices found a number of data storage units in the apartment. The equipment is now being investigated, the police said.