Elizabeth Archibek and Anthony Martinez from Flagstaff, Arizona, admitted during interrogation by the police that their fault in March of this year was the death of the couple’s 6-year-old son Deshon, who was starved and kept in a locked cabinet for 16 hours a day for.

This publication writes AzCentral.

A forensic examination found that the boy was completely exhausted and weighed a little over 8 kilograms - the weight of a one-year-old child. In the same closet, parents locked his seven-year-old brother, who also suffered from malnutrition.

His parents, as well as his grandmother, Ann Martinez, have been charged with first-degree murder, kidnapping and child abuse. The defendants do not admit their guilt. The prosecution will have to decide before the end of July whether to seek the death penalty in this case..

Surviving brothers and sisters of a boy of 2, 4 and 7 years old were removed from the family and transferred to the custody of the Department of child safety in Arizona, said newsru. co. il.