A father and stepmother in Michigan are accused of abusing and nearly starving their young children to death while keeping them locked up in their room nearly all the time.

Arturo Bazan-Perez and Dulce Crystal Bazan Castillo were taken into custody over the weekend and charged with two counts each of first-degree child abuse and two counts each of torture .

The child abuse and torture charges are both punishable by up to life in a state correctional facility.

According to a news release from the Oakland County Prosecutor's Office, the case against the couple began when a 9-year-old boy suffered "cardiac arrest due to malnutrition" and was admitted to Trinity Hospital in Pontiac. The hospital is about 25 miles northwest of Detroit.

Doctors said the victim, who weighed just 33 pounds whe

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