A young boy who was locked in a ‘Harry Potter’ cupboard for months while being beaten and starved was rescued by his siblings when he was hours from death.

Tiny Jordan Bleimeyer, five, was severely malnourished when he was freed from the abuse by his evil stepmother Tammi Bleimeyer and dad Bradley Bleimeyer.

Now Jordan’s brother and sister – who testified against the couple – have revealed how they saved the young boy’s life in March 2014, in a case which has shocked the world.

Tammi, from Spring, Texas, was sentenced to 28 years in prison after starving the boy, forcing him to wear a nappy and making him sleep in a grimy closet.

The 37-year-old was found guilty of injury to a child by omission after her horrendous treatment of Jordan, who is now nine.

Jordan was forced to sleep in a tiny space underneath the stairs, which was referred to as the "Harry Potter room".

Her son Cody, who was 16 at the time, told The Sun that he was stunned when he opened the door to the cupboard.

Jordan’s face was "caved in", he said, and he was covered in bruises.

Cody said: “If we hadn’t got him out that day I don’t think he would have survived.

“The situation, the abuse, was bad before – there’s no doubt – but that day when I opened the door up and saw him I was in complete shock.

“He looked like he was close to death."

Cody, said Jordan could disappear for days on end, and told The Sun that the abusive couple were furious that he had opened the cupboard.

He gave Jordan to sister Allison before confronting them, he revealed.

Both were arrested later in the day, and Jordan and his seven step-brothers and step-sisters were put in care.

Allison said she one day hopes to resurrect her relationship with her mum, who she has not spoken to for more than four years,if she can "realise her faults" and "make amends".

The crawlspace Jordan was kept in had exposed nails and wiring and the boy slept on a small mattress.

Doctors said Jordan had nearly starved to death as he weighed just 29 pounds when he was saved.

Medics compared his severe malnourishment to a Holocaust survivor.

Jordan’s father, Bradley Bleimeyer, was sentenced to 15 years behind bars after pleading guilty to the same charge.

The abuse came to light when Tammi’s 16-year-old son reported her to the authorities in 2014.

He told officials that Jordan was being abused by his mother and stepfather, then 24.

Bleimeyer – who was six months pregnant at the time – took Jordan from the home and refused to return when police arrived.

But police tracked her to a nearby motel where they found her with Jordan.

The boy was covered in bumps and bruises and was severely underweight.

Jordan was rushed to hospital where a doctor said he has suffered "severe physical abuse and habitual starvation".

They said Jordan was close to death and would have died within days if he hadn’t been rescued.

Details of the abuse emerged during the trial when prosecutors revealed Jordan was not allowed to eat at the dinner table with Belimeyer’s children.

All he was given to eat each day was a slice of bread and it would be taken away it he didn’t eat it quickly enough.

Jordan was also allegedly drugged by his father to keep him quiet when people were in the house.

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