BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) -- Newly released court documents outline shocking accounts of child cruelty to adopted children in a small desert town in eastern Kern County.

The court documents contain redacted investigative reports of horrific details laid out by the children, and denials by the parents.

North Edwards is a small desert town, 80 miles east of Bakersfield, 20 miles north of Mojave. Both 35-year-old Brittney and 38-year-old Matthew James were charged last Friday.

Each parent is charged with three counts of torture, three counts of assault with a deadly weapon, three counts of false imprisonment, and three counts of child cruelty.

The court documents say the youngest child -- a 9-year-old boy -- reported the abuse to his school. He told deputies both parents duct taped his m

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