A Clay County judge has ordered that a bipolar teenager found handcuffed in a Kansas City basement must stay in foster care for now.

Police found the 17-year-old handcuffed to a pole in the family’s basement last month. Police said he’d been kept there for some time and given little food.

Clay County authorities charged his father and stepmother, 42-year-old David Martin Sr., and 41-year-old Pamela Martin, with felonious restraint and child abuse. The couple said they handcuffed him because they didn’t have money to buy prescription medicine for his condition.

Tthe judge ordered a home study to determine if the teen could live with his mother, who said she was unaware of conditions at his father’s home. The next hearing is May 3.