Murder Charges Planned in Storage Unit Case

A commercial storage unit facility is shown Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015, where two children were found dead in Redding, Calif. Autopsies were planned for the 3-year-old girl and 6-year-old boy, whose names were not released.

The Salinas Police Department will hold a press conference on the deadly child abuse case Thursday afternoon. “Suffice it to say it was bad”.

The second time, McMillin said, they didn’t see anything that led them to believe there was any abuse or neglect taking place.

Quincy police called police in Redding, who went to AAA Enterprise Store-All and found a locked unit, police said.

“I’ve tried to commit suicide”. “Those kids were my babies”. No charges have been filed in their deaths.

Speaking at Salinas City Hall, police and prosecutors provided a brief timeline of the homicides and torture.

Investigators say two young children found dead in a California storage unit died from ongoing physical abuse.

“We are absolutely convinced that these are the children that have been missing”, Flippo said. McMillin said the teen previously lived at the residence and was related to Huntsman. “That’s your primary point of failure”. Outside the couple’s boarded-up apartment in Salinas, a grandmother expressed her grief.

“In child welfare you have to (reach) an evidentiary standard that will stand up in court”, he said. “It’s been a rollercoaster”.

“People have a generalized fear of retribution, but it rarely happens”, he said.

Aponte said she’s now determined to bring Frankie home. She alleged that Criswell was being verbally abusive and that he was stalking her.

Huntsman rented a storage locker in Redding one week later on December 4, a manager at the facility told The Bee.

Police went to the Salinas home of Huntsman and Curiel beginning Sunday to search for clues.

Some officers dealing with the case have been so shaken by the abuse the woman endured that they could need to take day without work to get well, Hagwood stated.

Plumas County Sheriff Greg Hagwood told the Sacramento Bee a deputy discovered the girl inside a vehicle parked near an apartment the pair had recently moved to from Salinas.

“This is child abuse, the likes of which we haven’t experienced here (in Plumas County)”.

Huntsman and the teenager were charged in Plumas County with child abuse, torture and mayhem involving the 9-year-old child.

The department noted Huntsman and Curiel had physical custody of two children, brother and sister Delilah Tara, 3, and Shaun Tara, 6, who have been reported missing.

Police later learned that at least two other children – Shaun Tara, 6, and Delylah Tara, 3 – were also in Huntsman’s custody.

This abuse likely started in Salinas and continued elsewhere.

“I think we feel very comfortable that we will be able to prove they were killed in Salinas”, he said.

The district attorney says he plans to charge both suspects with first-degree murder and prosecute the 17-year-old as an adult. “When you see what has been done to a attractive little 9-year-old girl.” the sheriff said before stopping to regain his composure. They have been named as suspects in the deaths, but they have not been charged. Officials struggled several times during the news conference to clarify the familial relations.

The district attorney added that officials do not know whether Huntsman had the children in her home through some formal custody agreement. “They were just in the house”.

There were two anonymous calls of child abuse at the Fremont Street apartment. The father, Shaun Daniel Tara, is now in the Riverside County Jail on drug and weapons charges. Huntsman is also the biological mother to 12-year-old twins now in foster care and possibly an older teenager, McMillin said. They did not say whether they found anything. Officers were unable to find anyone at the unit during the first call, Mcmillin said.

Investigators are receiving varying levels of cooperation from neighbors and others.