Father of freed student says son was ‘brutalized’ by captors
WYOMING, Ohio — The father of an American college student released by North Korea and now hospitalized in a coma says his son was “brutalized” by his captors.
Fred Warmbier told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson on Wednesday from his Ohio home that his son, Otto, “is not in great shape right now.”
“Otto has been terrorized and brutalized for 18 months by a pariah regime in North Korea,” the father said in an interview scheduled to air Thursday night.
The 22-year-old University of Virginia student was medically evacuated from North Korea and flown to Cincinnati late Tuesday. He was then taken by ambulance to a hospital.