Toddler deaths shock Australia

June 18, 2008

Australian police charge the parents of toddler twins found decomposed and emaciated by their 11-year-old sister. Police say the pair had been dead for up to a week - apparently from neglect and starvation. The couple's other children said they rarely saw the twins, who were kept in their room and rarely attended to for nappy changes and feeding. The children's grandmother is now looking after the other four children aged between three and eleven. The parents, a 30-year-old woman and a 28-year-old man, have been charged with failing to provide the necessities of life.