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Omaha Steve

(99,660 posts)
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 05:24 PM Dec 2015

2 children found dead in Northern California storage unit

Source: AP

By KRISTIN J. BENDER and SCOTT SMITH

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Homicides detectives were investigating Tuesday after authorities found two children dead inside a commercial storage unit in Northern California.

Autopsies were planned Wednesday for the 3-year-old girl and 6-year-old boy, whose names were not released. No charges have been filed in their deaths.

The investigation also led to a starved and injured 9-year-old girl, the Plumas County Sheriff's Office said. She was taken to a hospital.

It began with a call about a possible child abuse case in the small town of Quincy, about 220 miles northeast of San Francisco.

FULL story at link.


In this photo taken, Monday, Dec. 14, 2015, and released by the Monterey County Weekly, members of the Salinas Police Crime Scene Investigation unit walk into a house in Salinas, Calif., recently lived in by a woman and teenage boy arrested on suspicion of felony child abuse, torture and mayhem. Homicides detectives were investigating Tuesday after authorities found two children dead inside a commercial storage unit in Quincy, Calif., over 300 miles north of Salinas. (Nic Coury/Monterey County Weekly via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT FOR PAPER AND PHOTOGRAPHER. MONTEREY HERALD OUT, SALINAS CALIFORNIAN OUT, SANTA CRUZ SENTINEL OUT, SAN JOSE MERCURY OUT, LOCAL TV OUT

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2 children found dead in Northern California storage unit (Original Post) Omaha Steve Dec 2015 OP
Sick. Ivan Kaputski Dec 2015 #1
On the other hand, banks are doing really well, and California is running a surplus because they jtuck004 Dec 2015 #2
Not sure how poverty explains torture and murder of little kids. yardwork Dec 2015 #3
And yet you see "torture and murder" far more among populations who live jtuck004 Dec 2015 #5
Actually, I'm not sure that's true. yardwork Dec 2015 #8
yup . abuse which is what this was happens at all levels JI7 Dec 2015 #9
This message was self-deleted by its author jtuck004 Dec 2015 #12
Meth. LeftyMom Dec 2015 #14
RACIST! XemaSab Dec 2015 #15
Did anybody from Bethel try to raise the kids from the dead? LeftyMom Dec 2015 #16
Signs point to yes XemaSab Dec 2015 #18
Also, you left out XemaSab Dec 2015 #17
But where the government is spending its money, on bank$ters, paying wealthy companies, I don't jtuck004 Dec 2015 #19
I missed the part where banks killed these kids and stuffed them in Rubbermaid totes. LeftyMom Dec 2015 #20
But there are thieving irresponsible pols who sell people's lives to the highest bidder. jtuck004 Dec 2015 #21
Thanks dude, it's been real. LeftyMom Dec 2015 #22
Meth is a helluva drug XemaSab Dec 2015 #23
So I'm not the only one to have noticed LeftyMom Dec 2015 #24
Well ... that was both vague annnnd rude! marble falls Dec 2015 #29
Haha Yes! MrTopRamen Dec 2015 #28
As long as rich people are getting richer, that's all that matters in this world. valerief Dec 2015 #4
What the fuck does that have to do with anything? XemaSab Dec 2015 #10
3 year old girl & 6 year old boy, 9 year old girl... Dont call me Shirley Dec 2015 #6
Breaks my heart. 840high Dec 2015 #7
More... 840high Dec 2015 #11
As bad as I had it as a child, they have had it so much worse. My heart holds their innocence in Dont call me Shirley Dec 2015 #25
plus 100 Liberal_in_LA Dec 2015 #31
This is an insane story, unbelievable. More, below: Judi Lynn Dec 2015 #13
family lived in another apt in same apartment building. Why didn't they know what was going on? Liberal_in_LA Dec 2015 #26
God, those poor kids. leftyladyfrommo Dec 2015 #27
They don't look so "meth-y", they look pretty normal. Unbelievably evil events... marble falls Dec 2015 #30
 

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
2. On the other hand, banks are doing really well, and California is running a surplus because they
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 05:50 PM
Dec 2015

aren't spending so much on creating opportunities for people to live better and safer lives.

We could just blame it on a teenage kid and his mom because rents are too high, and food thus becomes a luxury for people supporting the upper class.

That's easier, and lets everyone else off the hook for governing to improve the lives of their donors while leaving tens of millions of working poor and people living in poverty to hang.



yardwork

(61,650 posts)
3. Not sure how poverty explains torture and murder of little kids.
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 05:57 PM
Dec 2015

I agree that we need a better safety net, but still, some people are just evil.

Lots of people survive in poverty without torturing and murdering children.

 

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
5. And yet you see "torture and murder" far more among populations who live
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 06:39 PM
Dec 2015

in poverty. So it seems choices that shuffle money from working people to the wealthy are policies that insure the ones left out will hurt more.

Because I am pretty sure evil is evenly distributed across the classes.

But they had to learn somewhere. Maybe it started before this...no, wait, that leaves us with responsibility.

I have it. Let's blame it on mental illness. Then no one is at fault.

Or maybe evil just appeared out of nowhere. Sure it did.



Response to yardwork (Reply #8)

LeftyMom

(49,212 posts)
14. Meth.
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 10:41 PM
Dec 2015

Salinas, Plumas County, Redding, storage units, child neglect, suspects with scabby faces and crime scene techs in space suits? As a local lemme translate all that for you:

Meth, meth, meth, meth, meth, meth, meth and meth.

LeftyMom

(49,212 posts)
16. Did anybody from Bethel try to raise the kids from the dead?
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 10:47 PM
Dec 2015

I wanna know, but not enough to read the comments section in the Penlight.

XemaSab

(60,212 posts)
17. Also, you left out
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 10:47 PM
Dec 2015

a 39-year-old woman and a 17-year-old boy being a thing.

Spoiler: that is not a thing.

 

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
19. But where the government is spending its money, on bank$ters, paying wealthy companies, I don't
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 11:17 PM
Dec 2015

see the "meth, meth, meth, etc".

Translation: sounds more like an excuse for government - that's us - policy which favors the privileged class.

The jobs which used to be here have been sold, the costs of educating our young for the nation's future have been shifted to the least likely to be able to do it, the students themselves. We pretend to an economy which is largely debt, and that we have employment when so many fewer are working.

And we support the wealthy with hundreds of billions of dollars, while our really destitute get barely enough food stamps to get through all 20 days of a month.

I am sure someone will have pictures of all the meth labs they have busted in Goldman Sachs and their employee's neighborhoods, where much of the money people work for is going. Make me sound like a loon.

Oh well. I prefer sounding like that to some of the alternatives I am hearing.



LeftyMom

(49,212 posts)
20. I missed the part where banks killed these kids and stuffed them in Rubbermaid totes.
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 11:43 PM
Dec 2015

Look, I know you've got one idea about politics and you're just going to apply it to everything, but there isn't one cause for all of the world's evils.

 

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
21. But there are thieving irresponsible pols who sell people's lives to the highest bidder.
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 11:50 PM
Dec 2015

It seems you are vested in your excuse factory. Enjoy it. I find it a loathsome hobby.

bye

LeftyMom

(49,212 posts)
24. So I'm not the only one to have noticed
Wed Dec 16, 2015, 12:15 AM
Dec 2015

the correlation between Shasta County Marching Powder and yelling about how the international banking conspiracy is murdering children?

MrTopRamen

(1 post)
28. Haha Yes!
Tue Dec 22, 2015, 07:01 AM
Dec 2015

I'm seriously urprised to not see the word "meth" anywhere near this story or any of the others relating to this couple

valerief

(53,235 posts)
4. As long as rich people are getting richer, that's all that matters in this world.
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 06:38 PM
Dec 2015

The PTB prove it to us over and over and over again.

XemaSab

(60,212 posts)
10. What the fuck does that have to do with anything?
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 09:23 PM
Dec 2015

There's another case locally about a child who was beaten and forced to eat dog food and generally abused but you don't read about it in the paper because the family is wealthy.

Poverty is no excuse, and wealth is no immunization.

 

840high

(17,196 posts)
11. More...
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 10:01 PM
Dec 2015

Tami Joy Huntsman, 39, and her 17-year-old boyfriend, Gonzalo Curiel, are behind bars and facing charges of felony child abuse, torture, and mayhem, after the gruesome discovery in Redding, California, on Monday night. The bodies were stuffed inside plastic tote containers and then hidden in the storage unit. Police were led to the remains after they discovered a 'severely abused' nine-year-old girl at an apartment Huntsman was taken. The youngster was taken into surgery suffering multiple injuries. Sheriff Greg Hagwood said she weighed about 40 pounds, had broken bones in her shoulder, broken fingers, a dislocated jaw, and teeth that were missing or loose.


from DailyMail

Dont call me Shirley

(10,998 posts)
25. As bad as I had it as a child, they have had it so much worse. My heart holds their innocence in
Wed Dec 16, 2015, 09:39 PM
Dec 2015

sacredness.

Judi Lynn

(160,545 posts)
13. This is an insane story, unbelievable. More, below:
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 10:24 PM
Dec 2015

Sheriff: Abused girl led to discovery of 2 kids' bodies in storage locker

UPDATED 5:29 PM PST Dec 15, 2015




. . .

When Huntsman, Curiel, and the young children moved from Salinas to a friend's house in Quincy, Calif., Plumas County Child Protective Services alerted the sheriff because agents found a tortured 9-year-old girl. The girl was starving and dying.

. . .

Social services had investigated Huntsman and her family within the last year for general neglect, said Elliott Robinson, director of social services for Monterey County. Robinson's Monterey County office filed death reports for the two children, indicating that the kids may have died in Salinas. Redding is about 300 miles north of Salinas, and 140 miles northwest of Quincy.

The two homicide victims and the abused 9-year-old girl were siblings. Friends said Huntsman was caring for the children who were slain because their mother died after she was struck by a car while walking, and the father gave up custody.

. . .

Tami Huntsman and her brother, Wayne Huntsman, grew up in Santa Cruz. Wayne Huntsman is currently in prison and accused of intentionally igniting a massive wildfire in a national forest. The King Fire scorched 120 square miles and 12 homes before firefighters contained it last fall. The King Fire cost $5 million a day to fight, fire officials said.

More:
http://www.ksbw.com/news/salinas-police-investigate-homicide-of-two-children-found-dead-in-a-storage-locker/36964756

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Tami Huntsman's brother, Wayne Huntsman.[/center]

leftyladyfrommo

(18,868 posts)
27. God, those poor kids.
Thu Dec 17, 2015, 11:34 AM
Dec 2015

I think they have found about 5 kids just this last year here in KC that were locked in closets or chained in the basement basically starved and tortured. They just arrested a man and his wife last week for the death of a 7 year old son whose body was fed to their pigs.

I wonder how many of them are really out there that no one knows about.

If family members haven't seen a child for a while they need to call in and have it checked out. A lot of the time neighbors don't even know the kids exist but you can be sure family members do.

marble falls

(57,106 posts)
30. They don't look so "meth-y", they look pretty normal. Unbelievably evil events...
Wed Dec 23, 2015, 02:59 PM
Dec 2015

children, yet. Killing children.

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