OAKLAND COUNTY, Mich. (WNEM) - A couple from Pontiac accused of starving two young children are charged with multiple felonies that could send them to prison for life.

The Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office has charged a husband and wife, 43-year-old Arturo Bazan-Perez, and 42-year-old Dulce Bazan Castillo with two counts of first degree child abuse and two counts of torture.

50th District Court Magistrate Angelina Thomas-Scruggs arraigned the parents on the charges and ordered them held without bond in the Oakland County Jail.

“The child abuse cases we are seeing right now are nothing short of heartbreaking and enraging,” Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said. “In this case especially, the suffering these children endured might have been stopped sooner had the legislation I cal

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