Authorities: 4 Missouri children found in windowless rooms

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FARMINGTON, Mo. (AP) _ Authorities say two adults are jailed after police found
four children who were apparently being kept in small, windowless rooms at their
southeast Missouri home.

St. Francois County Sheriff Daniel Bullock says officers found the children
Tuesday in a home in Farmington, about 60 miles (95 kilometers) south of St.
Louis.

Daryl Justen Head and Laura Elizabeth Cheatham, both 38, are each charged with
five counts of endangering the welfare of a child and three counts of
kidnapping.

Bullock says the children were in “fairly good” shape. They’re in state
custody. They had been adopted by Cheatham and her estranged husband.

The sheriff says the rooms were smaller than a jail cell and had no access to
water or toilets. He had no information on a possible motive.

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