Family mourns death of two children found in storage unit.

Raw emotions from the family of a 9-year-old girl found tortured and starved and two children found dead inside a storage unit in Redding have unravelled on social media as authorities investigate the gruesome case.

“The system failed my niece and nephew,” Laura Garcia Miranda writes on a GoFundMe account for the family. “Multiple calls were made to do welfare checks, but nothing ever came of it. Now we have to bury 2 small innocent kids, who will never have the chance to grow up, finish elementary school, play with friends, or even graduate high school.”

The legal guardian and aunt of the children, former Salinas resident Tami Joy Huntsman, has been arrested, along with her reputed boyfriend, 17-year-old Gonzalo Curiel. Both are charged with torture, mayhem and felony child abuse in connection with the months-long abuse of the 9-year-old. The deaths of the two other children are being investigated as homicides and Huntsman and Curiel are lead suspects on those slayings.

“So yes this is Tami,” Chris Criswell, Huntsman’s ex-husband, wrote on Facebook. “I am sick and numb all the same for the loss of two beautiful [babies] Sean and Delila.

“I am so sorry for all your pain, [may] God be holding your hands, uncle daddy loves you.”

Criswell has two 11-year-old twins—a boy and a girl—with Huntsman, according to Monterey County Superior Court records. Three days after the arrests of Huntsman and Curiel, Criswell posted on Facebook a plea for money to help him retrieve his “twins in Quincy,” where the 9-year-old girl and his twins were rescued by authorities.

The twins were placed into foster case.

The 9-year-old, who is referred to by family as “Frankie,” is said to be in stable condition, according to Miranda.  “Thank you for all your prayers,” she writes. “Please I ask for no negative comments it's a lot for all of us to take in, please remember we are grieving, and in mourning for [our] precious Angels.”

On Tuesday, authorities identified Shaun and Delylah Tara, ages 6 and 3, respectively, as missing children and have not confirmed them to be the two found dead in the storage unit. Their tiny bodies were found wrapped in plastic in a plastic tote container, according to a report by the Washington Post. The family’s posts on social media suggest the missing children are the same found in the storage unit.

“Delilah and the Papas [Shaun’s nickname], forever in my Heart, be free now with Mommy in Heaven,” Miranda writes. The children’s mother, Vivian Saucedo, died in 2013 after being struck by a pick-up truck in San Bernardino County, and the father is incarcerated.

Fatality certificates for both Delylah and Shaun have been filed with the Monterey County Department of Social Services, not because the children are believed to have died in the county, but because a county social worker was the last to ever contact the children in August after reports of them being neglected.

Shaun Tara, the man believed to be the father of the abused children, last updated his Facebook on Nov. 5. It is unclear where he is incarcerated. But throughout his social media account photos of his healthy, happy children can be seen.