A couple has been arrested after police found their three children living in a cramped box among feces and trash in Joshua Tree, California, on Wednesday, Feb. 28, according to a police statement.
Police from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department were conducting an area check in the 7000 block of Sun Fair Road in Joshua Tree when they found three children — aged 11, 13, and 14 — on the property. They told the deputies that they had been living in a “large rectangular box made of plywood” for about four years, according to the statement.
