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Salinas police found three starving children, including one chained to the floor, of a home last month, officials said Friday.

“It was a particularly heinous case,” Monterey County Sheriff Scott Miller told the Monterey Herald, adding that the children had “hardly eaten for months.”

The two boys and a girl were taken into protective custody, according to the Associated Press.

“It seems that the little girl was the major target of this abuse,” Miller told the Herald.

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