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We are hearing reports that his stepmom was keeping him in the basement. this is coming from documents obtained by the detroit free press. 12-year-old charlie was missing for days. his dad was going door-to-door looking for his son and the dad comes on our sister network hln for this interview with nancy grace and then this happened. >> charlie, we're getting reports that your son has been found in your basement. sir? mr. bothel, are you -- >> what? >> yeah. we are getting reports that your son has been found alive. >> so that was that interview from a couple of nights ago. remember that blood...

Founder of klaas kids foundation. welcome to both of you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you for being here. jane, do we know yet if the boy's stepmother was hiding him in the basement or elsewhere all along? >> this is just a wild mystery, carol. we know from this court document that the boy told cops that the stepmother told him go downstairs to the basement, put him behind boxes, hid him there and said don't come out no matter what you hear. but she also didn't provide any food for him according to the boy. all this happened, the disappearance happened while the boy was doing this ver...

Blood on it. and when they ultimately examined this boy in the hospital, he had scars all over his body, on his chest from the pvc pipe and on his buttocks. so maybe the stepmom says, look, you go downstairs, don't come out in matter what, i'll take care of this. the dad comes home and she says, you know what, he walked out. but then she gets herself out of one pickle, she finds herself in another pickle because then the dad reports the boy missing. and then you have the whole question of where was this boy because he wasn't there the whole time. we know cops searched that basement area severa...

>> i have no idea. >> well, now, as you can imagine, there are a whole lot of questions. new court documents released today allege physical abuse, the father hit the boy with a pipe. joining me to discuss the case is paul callan and jane velez-mitchell. jane, you saw that reaction there with nancy grace, do you believe the father's reaction on tv? he did appear distraught? >> he appeared distraught and what's contained in knees new court documents is shocking. he's saying, my step mom put me in the basement and told me not to come out no matter what i hear, and also did not leave me with any f...

And went down. did the father know about this. the step mom refused to take a polygraph. now we know why. the father's polygraph was reportedly inconclusive. i think the big question is, what did he know? how much did he know? undeniably, if these allegations are true, that are contained in these new court documents, you're going to see more charges coming down, because when they got this little boy to the hospital, they examined him, he had a big scar that he said was from his dad hitting him with a pvc pipe, and he had scars on his buttocs and he said dad hit me with a pvc pipe. there was a ...