Joshua Tree couple, Maron Kirk and Daniel Panico, were arrested after San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies found their three children, 11, 13 and 14, living in a wooden box, authorities said.
The plywood box found on the couple’s property measured about 20 feet long by 4 feet high and 10 feet wide, the report said. The children told investigators they had been living in the box for about four years.
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The property had no electricity or running water and mounds of trash and human feces were found throughout the property, the statement said.
According to a statement from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, deputies went to a property in the 7000 block of Sunfair Road in Joshua Tree for an area check when they found an apparently abandoned travel trailer and a large rectangular plywood box. source
Maron Kirk and Daniel Panico were arrested and booked into the Morongo Basin Jail on suspicion of willful cruelty to a child.
They were being held in lieu of $100,000 bail the statement said.