Homeless Couple Charged as Child Abusers for Raising Kids in Shack

Homeless Couple Charged as Child Abusers for Raising Kids in Shack
This makeshift shelter might have housed a family of five. San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, Morongo Basin Station
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A California couple who raised their children in a homemade plywood shack has pleaded not guilty to charges of child abuse.

Daniel Panico and Mona Kirk lived with their three children in what was basically a big plywood box without electricity or running water just outside Joshua Tree National Park, about 125 miles east of Los Angeles.