California couple pleads not guilty to torture, abuse
By Reuters
19 January 2018 |
9:00 am
The California couple accused of keeping their 13 children captive in the family's squalid home were charged on Thursday with torture, child abuse and false imprisonment, as prosecutors said the victims were beaten, starved and chained.
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