Adoptive Parents: Child Abuse In The United States

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Adoptive parents Benito Gutierrez, 69, and Carol Gutierrez, 64, have been arrested on charges of child abuse on account of their four children.

One of the sons escaped through a bedroom window and went to a nearby Family Dollar store. The clerk, noting the age and bad condition of the child, called authorities.

According to the Daily News, deputies with the Pima County Sheriff’s Department found three more children, whose ages ranged from 6 to 12, trapped inside their respective bedrooms. The doors reportedly locked from the outside.

The sheriff's office said the children were regularly kept in their locked rooms for up to 12 hours at a time without access to food, water, a bathroom or lights. It was reported that a bucket was found in

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