UNIONTOWN, Pa. — A Redstone Township couple was arrested Wednesday after allegedly keeping their five children in a room that police said “functioned as a dungeon.”

The children of James Kahl, 65, and Carly Kahl, 41, were forced to spend part of the day and all of the night in the bedroom, which their father had secured from the outside by three deadbolt locks, according to the Kahls’ criminal complaints. There was no handle on the inside.

Video cameras installed inside to monitor the children, who are ages 5-14, were hardwired to James Kahl’s room, police said.

“(James Kahl) stated in front of me and a CYS case worker that he would not be removing the locks from the door for any reason,” Trooper Justin Yeckley wrote in the affidavit of probable cause.

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