Two suspects were being held on charges of child abuse and torture Tuesday, according to police who found two dead children inside a storage locker in northern California.
A third abused child — a young girl — was fighting for her life after undergoing surgery, according to NBC station KSBW.
Tami Joy Huntsman, 39, and Gonzalo Curiel, 17, both of Quincy, California, and recently of Salinas, south of San Francisco, remained in the Plumas County Jail on charges of felony child abuse, torture and mayhem, police said.
“This case is being investigated as a homicide with an autopsy pending,” Redding Police Department said in a news release.
No further information about them or their relationship to the children was publicly available, although KSBW said the dead children were aged three and five years and that all three victims were siblings.