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Trial Day 1 "I felt like they were dying in front of me," said Shaun's kindergarten teacher Gabriela Downer, though the trial judge told the jury to ignore that statement af- ter the defense objected. Jane Doe survived but Shaun and Delylah died in Salinas around Thanks- giving 2015 from blunt force trauma and starvation. Curiel and Huntsman beat them because Jane Doe had taken a ba- gel to eat, said Steve Somers, deputy district attorney with the Monterey County DA's Curiel and Huntsman hid their bod- ies in a blue Sterilite storage container sealed with duct tape and the following day left Salinas for Redding, he said. There, they put the container in a storage locker in Redding and stayed with relatives in Shingletown, Somers said. But Jane Doe subsisted, Somers said.

She continued to endure abuse, includ- ing walking barefoot on a family hike in the mountains in December as punish- ment because her shoes kept falling he said. In Shingletown and later in Plumas County, Huntsman and Curiel told rela- tives Jane Doe had mental health issues that caused her to throw herself down and only eat foods, Somers said. But Huntsman's relative in Plumas County, April Lorenzo, worried about Jane Doe and called her friend Kimberly Towning for advice. When Huntsman learned of this, she became "very angry" and left, Somers said. Lorenzo and Towning then called authorities.

At Hunstman's new home, 2110 E. Main St. in Quincy, Plumas County deputies found Jane Doe se- verely injured on the of Huntsman's Toyota 4Runner Dec. 11, 2015, Somers said, while Huntsman and Curiel were inside the home. They arrested Huntsman and Curiel, he said.

But deputies didn't learn of Shaun or Delylah until Huntsman's mother called fearing they were dead, Somers said. An in-custody interview with Curiel and a lease dated Dec. 4 for the storage unit pointed authorities to Redding, where they found Shaun and Delylah's bodies Dec. 13, 2015, Somers said. Curiel's defense attorney, Arthur Du- dley, said Huntsman was the only adult in the household throughout the abuse.

"The person primarily responsible for all of the injuries is Ms. Huntsman. Mr. Curiel was only 16, 17 years of age," Du- dley said in a brief opening statement. In Somer's opening statement, he de- scribed the children's cramped two- bedroom apartment at 501 Fremont St.

in Salinas, where at one point eight peo- ple lived. One room had been split to make a third bedroom out of "wood frames and plywood," Somers said. But much of the abuse took place in a mostly concrete bathroom, said Som- ers, who brought into court a wooden box, 5 feet long by 2 feet and 9 inches wide, to show its size. There, Curiel would make the chil- dren strip naked and sit in the shower, sometimes spraying them with cold wa- ter or beating them, Somers said. "If they made any noise, Curiel would hit them with a showerhead," Somers said.

The bathroom door's lock was moved to the outside to keep them trapped af- ter Curiel foiled an escape attempt by Jane Doe, Somers said. As punishment, Curiel and Hunts- man then took Jane Doe into a bedroom where they took turns holding her down and beating her with a belt, he said. "As she was struggling to get free she broke her shoulder," Somers said. They then put Jane Doe's arm in ice water, the only treatment provided, he said. The abuse culminated in the worst beatings they'd endured right around Thanksgiving, Somers said.

Monterey County Probation had brought a gift basket of food, including bagels, to Huntsman as part of a program for fam- ilies with incarcerated relatives, Somers said. She didn't share any food with the children and later on, Jane Doe was caught sneaking a bagel for her and her siblings to eat, Somers said. Jane Doe and her siblings were beat- en, he said. Jane Doe would never speak with her siblings again, with Huntsman telling her they'd been adopted out, Somers said. The abuse began sometime between Huntsman's husband leaving in Janu- ary 2015 after learning of her relation- ship with Curiel and her oldest son's in- carceration at Monterey County Juve- nile Hall in April 2015, he said.

Teachers and the school nurse told a Monterey County Superior Court jury that Jane Doe and Shaun appeared well cared for when they started at Roosevelt Elementary School in March 2014. Jane Doe was "very curious, always had a smile," said Joyce Roach, her and second-grade teacher. She wrote well, got good grades and didn't have any behavioral problems. She also liked wearing "yoga" style pants to school. Shaun was quieter but seemed wise for his age, Roach said.

He also was very well behaved, said Downer, his kindergarten teacher in the half of 2015, she said. "He wanted hugs, to be touched," she said. But in spring 2015, things changed. They noticed Shaun and Jane Doe wore the same baggy, dirty clothes to school every day and their lice weren't being treated. Even though school fed them, they still lost weight.

Downer no- ticed they'd nap together during recess. "I've had kids come to school tired, normally they ask to go see the nurse," said Downer. "I've never seen one sleep under a tree." Danielle Capuyan, Roosevelt's part- time school nurse from 2013 to 2015, said both Shaun and Jane Doe came to her more than 20 times because of the lice. Six or seven times, Capuyan sent them home with a treatment that was never used, she said. She never saw similar problems with Huntsman's biological twin children.

She also noticed Jane Doe and Shaun wearing the same dirty clothes and seemed malnourished they'd devour the food on their plate and eat from the salad bar most other kids avoided. Both Downer and Capuyan said they bought the kids clothes but never saw Shaun or Jane Doe wearing them. When school resumed in August 2015, Huntsman told administrators she'd decided to homeschool Shaun and Jane Doe, Roach said. It was the last she heard of them until news reports about their deaths. Trial Day 2 Huntsman's 14-year-old twins, iden- in court as "twin boy" and "twin girl," gave testimony to the jury Tuesday.

They said they'd seen both Curiel and Huntsman hit Shaun Tara, 6, Delylah Tara, 3, and Jane Doe several times with their hands. The twins said they saw Delylah tied to her bed once when Huntsman and Curiel were away. sister-in-law, Amber Rykowski, said been checking in on the kids when Huntsman and Curiel left, sometimes for hours. Once, her daughter came to her and convinced her something was wrong at the home. She arrived and found Dely- arms fastened to her bed with a white zip-tie.

When she asked Huntsman about it, she claimed one of the other children had done it. Huntsman's son, twin boy, told the court she'd occasionally spank him but never seriously hurt him. He also never saw Curiel hit his twin sister or Hunts- man, he said. But he remembered Curiel once grabbed him and tried to choke him as punishment for missing school while Huntsman was there, the child Tuesday. Shaun, Delylah and Jane Doe, how- ever, received the most severe beatings, twin boy said.

His sister said she also only saw Huntsman hit the kids with the palm of her hand as if spanking or slapping. But she said Curiel sometimes punched the other children. She also said she'd heard sounds of the beatings and screams for them to stop. For the year after Huntsman took her brother's children, Shaun, De- lylah and Jane Doe, into her home in spring 2014, things were going well, twins and Rykowski said. But Jane Doe, Shaun and Delylah slowly stopped playing with other chil- dren outside until they seemed to van- ish.

They also stopped talking, especial- ly the previously "bubbly" Jane Doe, and Huntsman started closing and lock- ing her previously open door, Rykowski said. Huntsman's twin son said he did his best to stay away from the home during the day, returning at about 8:30 or 9 p.m. Sometimes he would spend the night at a friend's place or his grandmother's to avoid going home to Curiel. When their cousins disappeared, Huntsman told the twins she'd given them up for adoption, and within days the family was heading to Redding, the bodies of Shaun and Delylah in a storage container with them. Huntsman attrib- uted the smell to bad twin boy said.

After they stopped by the storage locker in Redding, where Curiel and Huntsman allegedly hid the bodies, the bad smell wasn't there anymore, he said. Huntsman and Curiel were originally going to stand trial together, but a judge split their trials earlier this year. Hunts- man later pleaded guilty to torture and murder charges to avoid the possibility of the death penalty. Curiel's trial is expected to last four more weeks, with up to 61 witnesses to be called. If convicted, he faces life in prison without the possibility of parole.

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