(AP) — Few can know or imagine what it's like being locked in a basement for days, weeks or months, denied the basic needs such as food, water, a bathroom. Carter says he suffered the same neglect, abuse and despair, at the hands of the adoptive parents, both of whom remain jailed on $1 million bond. [...] 18 and far removed from Alabama and his brother, it's all coming back to Carter with news of his baby brother, who is still recovering. Helena Police Chief Pete Folmar said the boy was kept in "forced isolation" and was described by doctors as severely and chronically malnourished, dehydrated, suffering from acute respiratory distress, shock, hypothermia, hypothyroid and close to death. According to the arrest warrants for the parents, the couple is accused of denying food, nourishment and medical care to the boy, who was "subjected to forced isolation for extended period of time." Richard Kelly worked in the computer technology field but had been unemployed for several weeks at the time of his arrest. Cynthia Kelly was a stay-at-home mother who home-schooled her adopted children. Neighbors said they were stunned by news of the boy's condition and the arrests. Carter and his younger brother were the fourth and fifth kids born to their biological mother in the Huntsville area before their mother lost her parental rights. The bright spot, he said, is that he and his brother were never separated. Carter was about 11 years old, and his brother about 7, when Cynthia and Richard Kelly came into their lives through a Christian adoption agency. The light switches had been altered so he couldn't turn them on and off. There was a door leading into the house as well, but there was a motion sensor on it to alert the family if he opened it.