article_snippet: The seven-year-old girl and an eight-year-old boy, who were found in the street in freezing temperatures after running away, testified that The seven-year-old girl and an eight-year-old boy, who were found in the street in freezing temperatures after running away were locked into separate bedrooms when Brewer went to work each day, were deprived of food and forced to use wastebaskets for a lavatory.
article_snippet: Both the boy and the girl were home-schooled by the boy and the girl reclusive adoptive mother in the middle-class suburb of Palmdale.
article_snippet: It was only due to the bravery of the eight-year-old boy that the torture came to light.
article_snippet: Brian Hudson of Los Angeles County's Special Victims Bureau told MyFoxLA after the children escaped in January 2013.
article_snippet: ” the children, The brother said, who were 'tired of being tied up and beaten', escaped without the children coats in freezing temperatures, and hid several blocks away.
article_snippet: the children were found hours later, huddled under a blanket in the street in the bitter cold.
article_snippet: Investigators said marks and injuries on the victims’ bodies were consistent with the abuse marks and injuries on the victims described.
article_snippet: the children were also apparently malnourished.
highlights_snippet: horrific abuse of a seven-year-old girl and an eight-year-old boy only came to light due to the bravery of the boy, who led his younger sister out of the house in freezing temperatures .
  