Rialto couple accused of branding, strangling, shooting pellet gun at 5 nieces and nephews: Police

5 youngsters in Barstow reported to police that they had been tortured by their aunt and uncle in Rialto, and on Wednesday, the couple was arrested, based on the Rialto Police Division.

The alleged bodily abuse was reported to Rialto police in January after it surfaced in an August 2021 investigation by the Barstow Police Division, Rialto police stated in a information launch.

The 5 minors, who vary in age from 11 to 17, lived with their aunt and uncle within the 1000 block of East Jackson Road in Rialto for 4 years, throughout which period they had been subjected to “numerous types of bodily abuse and torture together with branding, strangulation, and being shot with pellet weapons,” police stated.

Scarring and different bodily proof corroborated the youngsters’s accounts, police added, and Jessica Salas-Ruiz, 26, and Fernando Inzunza, 36, had been arrested on Wednesday.

Salas-Ruiz and Inzunza have been booked into the West Valley Detention Middle on a number of counts of corporal punishment of a kid, with Inzunza dealing with an extra cost of torture, police stated.

Inzunza is being held in lieu of $750,000 and was attributable to seem in Rancho Superior Court docket on Could 31, based on jail information.

Salas-Ruiz didn’t seem in a search of jail information, although police stated her bail has additionally been set at $750,000.

Anybody with details about the couple is requested to name Lt. James Mills at 909-820-2632.

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