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Two young brothers imprisoned in their feces-covered Wisconsin home raised the alarm by smashing their way out of a window — walking naked through the street like “cavemen” who’d “never seen the sun before,” according to distressing court documents.

Multiple neighbors called 911 after seeing the boys, ages 7 and 9, walking naked outside their Milwaukee home last Thursday, according to a criminal complaint detailing multiple felony charges against their mom, Katie Koch, 34, and stepdad, Joel Manke, 38.

The boys were bruised and bloodied and had so much feces in their hair, it had to be shaved off in a hospital, the affidavit said.

A 13-year-old girl told cops that she saw a “naked person walking on the sidewalk like a ‘caveman,'” the document stated.

“Like they had never seen the sun before,” the same young witness also told WDJT, while another neighbor who’d been there 30 years said he had no idea there were even kids in the house.

Responding cops described the boys’ home as a “terrible hoarding situation” — with feces covering the walls and so much trash that officers “had a difficult time seeing the floor.”

The 7-year-old boy was put in a diaper, and the boys’ bedroom had a lock outside as well as boarded-up windows, the affidavit said.

“It was something out of a horror movie,” Assistant District Attorney Mallory Davis told an initial hearing for the mom and stepdad, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

“These children were essentially confined to their room for much of their lives.”

Manke, the stepdad, admitted in interviews to boarding up the windows and locking the boys in their room, the affidavit said.

He “stated that he knew how the children were living was not right but he had to ‘pick his battles’ with [their mom] Koch to avoid arguments,” officers stated.

“Manke stated that he never contacted police or schools to report the children because he doesn’t believe in doing that to family members.”

The mom, meanwhile, admitted that the boys never went to school and had not been checked by a doctor in years.

“Koch stated that she ‘f—ed up'” and knew “her boys deserve better,” the affidavit said of her interview under oath.

Davis, the prosecutor, told the couple’s hearing that the boys are “completely uneducated” and not even potty trained, according to WDJT.

The parents face more than 40 years in prison if convicted of multiple counts of neglect and false imprisonment, the outlet said.

“These children have been horribly damaged from their mother’s actions,” Davis said. - Recorded, Mixed, Mastered The Off and Ons, ??? Stage Manager Strunz and Farrah - Resident Live Mixing Engineer Masanga Marimba Ensemble - Resident Mixing Engineer

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He has worked either as a performer or a mixing engineer in countless venues around Los Angeles including The Los Angeles Coliseum, The Staples Center, The John Anson Ford Amphitheater, The Hollywood Bowl, The Dorothy Chandler Pavillion, CBS Dancing with the Stars, The Valley Performing Arts Center, Catalina's Bar and Grill, Cafe Metropol, and many, many more.

His diverse career includes highlights from every discipline he's involved with: performing, recording, teaching, mixing and stage managing.  As a performer, Joel was a guest musician on Dancing with the Stars; as a teacher he's taught all ages and taught Taiko drumming workshops in Berlin; As a recording artist he's recorded French Horn on CBS's Survivor ; as a mixing engineer he has been a resident mixer at several Los Angeles venues and mixed shows all over North America and Europe for countless musical acts.

- Produced, Recorded, Mixed, Mastered Tim O'Gara, The Heart of Amerikay - Recorded, Mixed Tim O'Gara, Here We Go - Co-Produced, Recorded Survivor, Season One: Main Theme - French Horn Shaheen Sheik, EP - Produced, Recorded, Mixed Kaitee Page, 2 Singles - Recorded, Mixed, Mastered Lunic, Skeletons (2006) - Recorded, Mixed Alex Smith Trio, A Taste - Recorded, Mixed, Mastered Metro Steel, Demo - Mixed, Steel Drum Culture Crash Orquestra, EP - Recorded, Mixed, Mastered, Guitar, Cavaquinho, Vocal Michael Mull, Ami Maeda, Cozy - 6 song EP

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JRM - Full Biography      Joel Reed Mankey is a musician, engineer, composer and multi-instrumentalist from Thousand Oaks, CA. He received his Bachelor's of Music from California State University, Northridge, where he graduated in 2007 with a Major in Music Composition for Film and Television with a Minor in Japanese Language.

In January of 2016, thanks to the Aurora foundation's Generous grant, I was able to travel to Tokyo where I studied music of the biwa (Japanese lute) and shinobue (bamboo flute) and recorded music for our Eileen Aroon project with Biwa player and collaborator Tomoca Nagasu."                 

"Another favorite project is WEEfolk sessions Music video project.
WEEfolk sessions is a place to use our beautiful studio spaces to showcase all the great local talent we can find.  The WEEfolk Sessions YouTube and Instagram channels are a great places to discover world-class talent, and also be moved by great live music performances."  

The WEEfolk projects were all made in our home at All Day studios, which are available for Recording, Videography, Mixing and Mastering.

Joel has worked on both sides of the curtain in the music industry for his entire life, and has travelled around the world, playing and working at such venues as The National Palace of Culture in Sofia, Bulgaria, The International Music Festival in Chihuahua, Mexico, and Fred Kavli Performing Arts Center right at home in Thousand Oaks.

One such project, for which WEEfolk was awarded theAurora Foundation’s Challenge Grant (2015-2016), was  about connecting the Music of Japan, and the Celtic music of the British Isles. As a professional musician, Joel has played nineteen different instruments as a regular performer more than ten different Bands and Ensembles and played on countless recordings, from small indie groups to major label releases and network television premiers.

“They are, essentially at this point, unable to function in society.”