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An investigation is underway after a young boy was found naked inside a dog cage in a Philadelphia home, police said.

A 6-year-old boy was found locked in a dog cage and wearing no clothing inside a Northeast Philly home on Thursday afternoon by police. Several news outlets reported officers entered the home, on the 4200 block of Glenview Street in Mayfair, found the child naked in the cage with a pillow and a blanket.

A neighbor called the police after seeing two young girls standing in the rain partially clothed in the backyard of a house at about 1 p.m.

Authorities were called to a house in Mayfair for reports of screaming and found two partially clothed children outside and a naked boy in a dog cage inside, police said. 

Officials said the children’s mother would often lock the little boy inside the dog cage when she left the home.