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Jun 13, 2008 11:41 pm US/Pacific

2 Women Wanted In Alleged Torture Of Boy, 5

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Los Angeles police are asking for the public's help in locating two women suspected of beating, starving and torturing a 5-year-old boy.

Assistant LAPD Chief James McDonnell says the boy's mother, 24-year-old Starkeisha Brown, and her live-in friend, 19-year-old Krystal Matthews inflicted "unbearable physical and psychological abuse" on the child who was hospitalized on Monday. McDonnell says the boy's medical condition remains guarded.

McDonnell says the women routinely tortured the boy by beating and starving him. He says the boy also was forced to sit in his own urine, was forced to place his hands on a hot stove and has cigarette burns on his body.

Police say the women both have a history of violence and should not be approached.

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