Woman, teenager suspected in death of 2 children

Tami Huntsman was looking after the children, and now she’s in jail accused of abusing and torturing another child. The station, citing police sources, said the children who were found dead were siblings ages 5 and 3.

They are identified as 3 year old Delylah Tara and 6 year old Shaun Tara.

Huntsman and Curiel, who KSBW called a couple, had recently moved to a friend’s house in Quincy from their earlier home in Salinas, a third town about 300 miles southwest. Their names haven’t been released, and no charges have been filed in their deaths.

But police have linked their deaths to suspects who were arrested in a investigation of a 9-year-old girl who was starved and injured, NBC News reported.

The pair traveled to several cities in Northern California between November 27 and December 11 and stayed at a motel in Dunningan, California on November 28, Redding Police said.

The Plumas County Sheriff’s Office, Redding Police Department and Salinas Police Department are actively investigating the case.

Hunstman is a mother to a set of 12-year-old twins, a boy and a girl.

The Plumas County Sheriff’s Office responded to a possible case of child abuse there and found a severely malnourished and abused child. The child is reportedly “fighting for her life” after undergoing surgery for “numerous injuries” at a hospital in Sacramento.

“That little girl had been subjected to the most unspeakable measure of torture for an extended period of time”, Plumas County Sheriff Greg Hagwood told the Plumas County News.

The couple is being held on $1 million bail. Authorities said they haven’t confirmed that these children were the victims found in the storage facility. When investigators interrogated Curiel, however, he told them about a storage locker in Redding, over 200km northwest of Quincy.

The 17-year-old boy and 39-year-old woman have not been charged in the deaths of the 3-year-old girl and 6-year-old boy. A woman who answered the phone there Tuesday declined to comment. They found the girl alone in their parked vehicle with broken bones and teeth.

Orr said she had no idea where the children where until she received a phone call on Monday and found out that two had died.

Attorneys Douglas Prouty, who represents the 39-year-old, and Robert Zernich, who represents the 17-year-old, declined to comment.

Additionally, four complaints alleging neglect had been lodged with the Monterey County Department of Social Services over the past year, the newspaper reported.