A Texas mother whose son was found alive last week after she reported him missing eight years ago said Wednesday that she expects to be arrested after neighbors alleged that Rudy Farias has been living at her house the entire time.

Janie Santana reported her son, then 17, missing in 2015, saying he had gone out to walk his dogs and never returned. The dogs were later found. Farias was reportedly found unconscious outside of the Immaculate Heart Church in southeast Houston on Thursday. He had cuts, bruising, and a bloody head, as CrimeOnline reported.

Houston police said he had a family member’s identification with him, which enabled investigators to contact his mother. Farias refused to be transported to the hospital, but his mother said she later took him.

But then neighbors told Houston media that they were surprised to learn Rudy — who they knew as Dolph, short for his given name of Rudolph — was missing at all, saying they frequently saw him at his mother’s home and that he had often visited them.

Houston Police interviewed Farias and Santana Wednesday, and while they have not said what they learned — a news conference is scheduled for later Thursday — Houston community activist Quanell X told reporters after meeting with Farias, Santana, and a detective that he heard “horrific things from that young man,” KPRC reported.

Quanell said Farias refused to speak to the detective in front of his mother, but when she was taken out of the room, he opened up, saying that he did run away in 2015 but came back home two days later.

“This young man said that when he initially ran away, he came back two days later and [his nother] told him that he had to hide, that he was going to get in trouble and they were going to arrest him for running away and that he had to continue hiding,” Quanell said. “So she hid him out for a while then brought him back to the house and hid him in the home and, initially, whenever the investigators would come, she would hide him in the house.”

Quanell said that Farias suffered horrific abuse for the past eight years and was “hidden in plain sight.”

In a video captured by a neighbor and shared with KPRC, Santana says that police want to “arrest me because they say I was hiding him.”

Police said on Twitter late Wednesday that they were “not in a position at this time to discuss specifics of the interviews or if the content behind released is entirely factual.” Thursday morning, they announced the news conference to be held around noon.

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[Featured image: Rudy Farias in 2015/Texas Center for the Missing]