03-24-2014, 08:51 AM
Heartless bitches...
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Eraca Dwan Craig, 31, and Christian Jessica Deana, 44, were arrested at the scene of a child welfare check on suspicion of felony child cruelty, false imprisonment and other charges. They are being held on $50,000 bail.
Three starving children — including one who was chained to the floor to prevent her from getting food — were found in the squalid home of a Northern California couple, authorities said.
All three — two boys and a girl — were taken into protective custody, and one was hospitalized, Monterey County Sheriff Scott Miller said Friday. The boys are 3 and 5 years old, and the girl is 8, authorities said, and they all exhibited bruises and signs of other physical as well as emotional abuse. The girl and the older boy were adopted children, and the younger boy is the biological son of one of the women, Miller said.
Authorities discovered them in the Salinas, Calif., home on March 14 after two of the young people missed appointments, according to several published reports.
"It was a particularly heinous case," Miller told the Monterey Herald. The children had "hardly eaten for months." The girl, who appeared to have suffered the most extreme abuse, was chained to the floor to prevent her from getting any food, they said.
"It seems that the little girl was the major target of this abuse," Miller continued, adding that she looked "like a concentration camp victim." The girl was in the hospital for about five days, he said, and seemed "traumatized."
There was evidence that she was may have been put in the closet as well as that she was sometimes shackled at the ankle and at other times by a collar around her neck, Miller said.
The women, who are domestic partners, do not appear to have criminal records in Monterey County. They were both aRraigned in Monterey County Court on Tuesday and are scheduled for a preliminary hearing on March 28.
Authorities said the women seemed to be making preparations to leave before they were arrested.
Refs:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/22...12488.html
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me...z2wsqeKAv9
Eraca Dwan Craig, 31, and Christian Jessica Deana, 44, were arrested at the scene of a child welfare check on suspicion of felony child cruelty, false imprisonment and other charges. They are being held on $50,000 bail.
Three starving children — including one who was chained to the floor to prevent her from getting food — were found in the squalid home of a Northern California couple, authorities said.
All three — two boys and a girl — were taken into protective custody, and one was hospitalized, Monterey County Sheriff Scott Miller said Friday. The boys are 3 and 5 years old, and the girl is 8, authorities said, and they all exhibited bruises and signs of other physical as well as emotional abuse. The girl and the older boy were adopted children, and the younger boy is the biological son of one of the women, Miller said.
Authorities discovered them in the Salinas, Calif., home on March 14 after two of the young people missed appointments, according to several published reports.
"It was a particularly heinous case," Miller told the Monterey Herald. The children had "hardly eaten for months." The girl, who appeared to have suffered the most extreme abuse, was chained to the floor to prevent her from getting any food, they said.
"It seems that the little girl was the major target of this abuse," Miller continued, adding that she looked "like a concentration camp victim." The girl was in the hospital for about five days, he said, and seemed "traumatized."
There was evidence that she was may have been put in the closet as well as that she was sometimes shackled at the ankle and at other times by a collar around her neck, Miller said.
The women, who are domestic partners, do not appear to have criminal records in Monterey County. They were both aRraigned in Monterey County Court on Tuesday and are scheduled for a preliminary hearing on March 28.
Authorities said the women seemed to be making preparations to leave before they were arrested.
Refs:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/22...12488.html
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me...z2wsqeKAv9