Authorities are investigating a situation in Michigan's Upper Peninsula in which a 10-year-old special needs child is alleged to have been kept in a closet for several hours a day over a period of several months.

Though officials said they could not comment on how the possible frostbite would have developed, they said it is believed any injuries to the child would have happened inside the

Authorities said the parents locked the 10-year-old boy “in a closet for several hours a day over the period of several months.”