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| Police find five children wearing scraps of clothes locked inside outdoor shed in Utah | ||
| 2025-12-08 | ||
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Five children wearing just scraps of clothing have been found locked inside an outdoor shed. Officers were searching for the children's father on a felony warrant when they made the horrifying discovery of the young children, all under the age of six, locked inside the shed on November 15.
Once the door was opened, the kids, aged six, five, four, one and under one year old, walked out partially clothed and the infant was picked out of the crib inside. Footage showed mattresses on the floor lined against the wall and toys scattered across the cramped shed. Officers were heard asking the children if they had been given blankets, to which they said they were given a space heater, KSL reported. Had the electrical heater set the wooden shed alight, there was 'no means of escape' for the children locked inside, according to an affidavit obtained by the outlet. Police had earlier responded to a theft call after the children's mother, 28-year-old Gabriela Salgado-Estrada, allegedly 'placed new, unpaid-for items on several of the children,' according to the affidavit. 'The children then took the tags off of those items, and Gabriela made no attempt to pay for them,' the affidavit added. 'She also placed items in the shopping cart, underneath a child carrier, that were not paid for. The unpaid items totaled just over $200.' Salgado-Estrada was arrested on charges of retail theft before Rojas arrived at the store to pick the children up and took them home. Rojas, however, allegedly gave police a fake Mexican ID under the name Omar Garcia, KSL reported. Ogden police discovered the ID was a fake and identified him as Rojas, who has an active third-degree felony and a class C misdemeanor arrest warrant.
'Contact was made with residents who were uncooperative, but stated that Wilber was not at the residence. A search warrant was obtained for the home for the apprehension of Wilber,' the affidavit said. Officers served a warrant to search the property and discovered the shed locked from the outside by a bolt lock and a cord, the outlet reported. The children walked out and the infant was handed to a family member who was stood outside with police. The relative was questioned by an officer as to why the children were locked up 'from the outside in.' 'They shouldn't be in there,' the family member was heard telling the officer. Rojas was eventually discovered after police fired a bean-bag round to coax Rojas out after he hid for around thirty minutes. He arrested on five counts of child abuse and providing police with fake identification and booked into Weber County Jail. On Tuesday, Rojas pleaded guilty to owning a fake Social Security card in a separate incident in February after he tried to open a bank account. It remains unclear who the children are now in the care of. | ||
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