2 children found dead in California storage unit

“This led to the discovery of two deceased [children] inside a storage unit in the city of Redding” said Plumas County Sheriff’s Sergeant Steve Peay. She was hospitalized, and her condition wasn’t available Tuesday.

Two children have been found dead inside a storage unit in the United States by police responding to reports of possible child abuse. According to the police, the case is being investigated as a homicide pending completion of autopsies, which are scheduled to take place on Wednesday.

Redding Police, who have been in contact with the Salinas Police Department, learned that Huntsman and Curiel had physical custody of two young children who were reported as missing persons.

Monterey County social services investigated Huntsman and her family in the previous year for general neglect, KSBW reported.

Officials later arrested a 17-year-old boy and a 39-year-old woman on abuse allegations related to the 9-year-old.

Investigators say Huntsman and Curiel recently traveled through Northern California in the SUV between Salinas, Dunnigan, Shingletown, Quincy and Redding between November 27 and December 11.

Police were led to the remains after they discovered a “severely abused” nine-year-old girl, who was taken into surgery suffering multiple injuries and weighing just 40lbs.

The Redding Police Department said the two are suspects in the deaths of the boy and the girl found in the storage unit.

Both are now being held on $1 million bail, with the possibility that they could be facing murder charges.

“We do not believe that there is a familial relationship, but there is a relationship, nonetheless”, Hagwood said.

Evidence seals covered the doors and windows of an apartment in Quincy where neighbors say Huntsman and Curiel moved in last week and were arrested on Friday.

Huntsman is the older sister of Wayne Huntsman, who is charged with starting the fire that ravaged the Eldorado National Forest in 2013.

Authorities placed Huntsman’s two older biological children, a 12-year-old boy and girl twins, who were also at the Quincy residence, in foster care. Those children are Tami Joy Huntsman’s.