I Found My Neighbor’s Twin Toddlers Hiding in My Empty Trash Can—Then Their Mother Told Me Why They Had Been Sent to Find Me

“I need to tell you why they were there.”

I waited.

“Not just outside.

In the bin.”

I had imagined frightened children seeing a container, climbing inside, and hiding because it was the first place they could think of.

I had not imagined a plan.

“For the first few days, he let me upstairs if I did what he wanted,” she said.

“He took my phone, my wallet, my keys.