SAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 A child abuse investigation led to the bodies of two young children inside a commercial storage unit in Northern California, along with a starving, injured 9-year-old at a house about 140 miles away, authorities said Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The 3-year-old girl and 6-year-old boy were found dead Friday at a storage facility in Redding, a city of 91,000 about 300 miles north of San Francisco.<\/p>\n
Homicide detectives were investigating, and autopsies were planned for Wednesday. The children\u2019s names were not released.<\/p>\n
The investigation began with a call about a possible child abuse case in the small Northern California town of Quincy.<\/p>\n
On Friday, authorities found the starving 9-year-old at a Quincy home, according to a news release from the Plumas County Sheriff\u2019s Office. The unidentified girl was taken to a hospital. No details on her condition were available Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Sheriff\u2019s officials later arrested a 17-year-old boy and 39-year-old woman on abuse allegations related to the 9-year-old. Each remained jailed Tuesday on $1 million bail. The two were being held on suspicion of felony child abuse, torture and mayhem.<\/p>\n
Attorneys Douglas Prouty, who represents the 39-year-old, and Robert Zernich, who represents the teen, both declined to comment. The Associated Press typically does not identify abuse victims; it is not naming the teen or the woman because their relationship to the children is unclear.<\/p>\n
The investigation then led authorities about 140 miles northwest, to the Redding storage facility where they found the bodies. A woman who answered the phone there Tuesday declined to comment.<\/p>\n
Redding Police Lt. Pete Brindley wouldn\u2019t say whether the two children were killed in the storage unit or elsewhere. No other details were released.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, south of San Francisco, authorities searched a home in Salinas, where the teen and woman recently lived. They did not say whether they found anything.<\/p>\n
Social services had investigated the 39-year-old and her family within the last year for general neglect, said Elliott Robinson, director of social services for Monterey County.<\/p>\n
Robinson\u2019s office filed the death reports for the two children found in Redding. He declined to comment further.<\/p>\n
Brindley said he expects more details to be released later Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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