Search warrant sealed in deadly child abuse case.

The search warrant served during a Salinas Police Department investigation into the torture of a girl and the deaths of two children whose bodies were found inside a storage unit in Redding, has been sealed by a Superior Court judge.

The court ruled that by making that information public it could "jeopardize the lives and well-being of witnesses" and the ongoing investigation, and could cause the "suspect or their associates" to flee, destroy evidence or intimidate witnesses.

Judge Albert Maldonado signed the Salinas PD's request to seal the warrant for 90 days on Dec. 22, the same day Tami Joy Huntsman, 39, the children's aunt and Gonzalo Curiel, 17, her reputed boyfriend, were charged in connection to the deadly abuse.

The search warrant granted police and investigators access to the East Salinas home were Huntsman and Curiel lived with the children and the months-long abuse is alleged to have occurred.

The ongoing abuse has been cited as the cause of death for the children, who are believed to have been killed in Salinas on Thanksgiving weekend.

The children, 3-year-old Delylah Tara and 6-year-old Shaun Tara, were in the care of Huntsman, a cousin of their father's. Their mother, Vivian Saucedo, died in 2013 after being struck by a pick-up truck in San Bernardino County.