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Published: Dec. 1, 2008 at 11:33 PM

TRACY, Calif., Dec. 1 (UPI) -- A California teen who turned up Monday with signs of being tortured and clad only in underwear and a chain on an ankle said he had been held captive for months.

Police said the 17-year-old boy, who walked into the In-Shape City fitness center in Tracy about 4 p.m., claimed to have been imprisoned by a man and a woman, the San Jose Mercury News reported. The youth had burns on his body, a cut on his arm, was bleeding on his back, and was covered in soot or dirt, police and gym employees said.

The youth was taken to a hospital for treatment, police said.

Gym employee Chuck Ellis said the boy appeared to be scared and pleaded for him to "hide me, please hide me," KCRA-TV in Sacramento reported.

"He was hunkered down, terrified," Ellis said.

Ellis said the youth told workers at the fitness center he had been taken from a Sacramento group home about a year ago. Police said they had located a home suspected of being the residence where the boy was held captive.

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