Neighbors of Paul and Sheila Comer on Vivid Lane in Paulding County were, understandably, shocked when the two were arrested on six counts of child cruelty and one of false imprisonment.

The Comers' son, Mitch, was found last week in Los Angeles by a security officer dazed and confused at a bus depot.  The 18-year-old boy claims he spent the last four years locked in a room at his parents’ Georgia home.  The malnourished teenager claims his father had put him on a bus in Mississippi bound for L.A. on his 18th birthday.

"I watch a lot of Lifetime movies, and it really feels like I'm in a Lifetime movie," neighbor Dion Walker told John Spink of the AJC.  "It's something that you say, oh it could never happen in my neighborhood.  It would never happen next door."

Walker also agrees with neighbor Mea Smith who says in the two years they have lived on the street, they had seen the Comers' two daughters, but never the son.   “We had never seen this child,” said Smith. “Never. Never even signs of him at all.  Just something not quite right with that family.  No idea about the young boy; totally shocked when the police officer did speak to me."

“Maybe, when the young girls would stare at us, were they trying to say something?” Walker said. “Should we have noticed?”

The two girls, ages 11 and 13, are now in state care.