A third person in the South Valley has been sentenced to life in prison for torturing two toddlers and killing one of them.
A Wisconsin woman sent her missing 3-year-old son to a man's home "for disciplinary reasons," prosecutors said.
One child had to have her head shaved after maggots were found in her hair.
After a months-long manhunt, Dhante Jackson has been arrested on charges of abusing and killing 8-year-old Sophia Mason in Merced.
As the child was being placed in a police officer's car, the father jumped over the concrete median and crossed three lanes of traffic to escape.
An investigator opens up about what he found when he walked into the apartment and found the boys abandoned. He said they hugged him. "It's heart-wrenching. You hug them back."
