Two sick home intruders ripped a Washington state teen from his bed and tried to cut off his limbs — and the house’s security system failed to stop them, his mother says.
A Kirkland family filed a law suit against Comcast, claiming an alarm manufactured by the telecommunications giant didn’t provide the “intruder proof” protection it claimed to during the nearly-fatal attack.
Leena Rawat and her family moved into the house in September 2013. It didn’t come with an alarm system, so the Rawats quickly purchased one from Comcast.
The company armed the house with motion sensors. When Rawat asked why they didn’t put a detector on the basement window, they explained other sensors inside the basement would keep the home safe, she told Seattle’s KING 5.
But a month later, two violent home attackers broke in through that basement window.
In the middle of the night, the two slipped past the basement’s “intruder proof” sensor — which was turned off even though the company said it would be armed when the family was both at home and away — and snuck into 18-year-old Deep’s room.
They yanked him out of bed and told him they were there to “play a game” with him, Rawat said.
“The game would be that he would be fighting for his life,” she said.
They started torturing the teen and hacked at his arms and legs. They fled before he died.
“He was full of blood from head to toe, with gashes,” Rawat said. “He was in the worst situation possible that a mother wants to see her child in.”
Doctors weren’t sure if Deep would survive, she said.
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The teen pulled through — and now the Rawats have focused their attention on their new lawsuit. The suit claims both Comcast and the family’s cable provider, Pioneer Cable, are responsible for the violent break in.
While paperwork Rawat signed during the installation frees the company of liability for any security breaches, she’s still adamant about her case.
“It was not a one night thing. It’s changed our life,” Rawat said.
Comcast released a statement to KING 5 about the lawsuit: “We want to take this opportunity to extend our sympathies to the Rawat family. However, after a review of our records, we are confident that our home security system functioned properly.”
