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Jun 25, 2008 12:58 pm US/Pacific

Women Plead Not Guilty To Torturing Boy, 5

COMPTON (AP) ― Three South Los Angeles women have pleaded not guilty to burning, starving and beating a 5-year-old boy.

A Compton court commissioner accepted the pleas Wednesday in an abuse and torture case against the boy's mother, 24-year-old Starkeisha Brown, her live-in girlfriend, Krystle Matthews, and a baby sitter. The mother could face 25 years to life in prison if convicted.

The boy was hospitalized June 9 after being found ill and in the care of a homeless stranger outside a Los Angeles County child services office in Compton.

Prosecutors claim the women beat Brown's son, starved him, burned his genitals with cigarettes and forced him to place his hands on a hot stove.

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