article_snippet.sent: A Florida couple locked two of A Florida couple children in a closet for days on end, forced their children to eat from a bucket and never enrolled their children in school, according to authorities.
article_snippet.sent: a 17-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl, to a doctor or dentist.
article_snippet.sent: A 26-year-old relative told police that the family has 11 children but that the 17- and 12-year-old were the only two subjected to the cruel treatment, the Sun Sentinel reported.
article_snippet.sent: The conditions emerged when the older child ran away from home last month and started living on the street.
article_snippet.sent: When a 19-year-old woman took the older child in, the older child told a 19-year-old woman the older child was too scared to go home, a 19-year-old woman told authorities.
article_snippet.sent: Speaking to investigators, a 19-year-old woman said that the couple started locking the older child and the girl in a closet when the couple were young and the couple would spend days on end trapped inside.
article_snippet.sent: the couple were never sure how much time had passed because the couple could not see sunlight from inside a closet, the older child said.
article_snippet.sent: When the girl pretended to be dead a few years ago were let out, the older child was so hungry that the older child would eat trash, which sometimes made the older child sick, and the older child had to endure beatings at the hands of Golden-Hazel, the older child told investigators.
article_snippet.sent: The children, who lived at this home, picked food out of the trash to eat, The children, who lived at this home told investigators .
article_snippet.sent: Locked up: the couple had other children but allegedly only subjected other children to the treatment .
article_snippet.sent: Investigators noticed that the older child had teeth missing and the older child said the older child would often cry at night because of the pain in the older child mouth - but that the older child was never once taken to a dentist.
article_snippet.sent: They couple have each been charged with two counts of child neglect with great bodily harm and are now locked up the Palm Beach County Jail on $100,000 bail.