Mother and partner charged with abuse after 'starving her four children to the brink of death over six months in a locked room and torturing them with the smell of cooking food'

• Ronika Bell, 28, charged along with her partner, Deron Cuthbertson, 31[/*:m:2ben11jm]
• North Carolina mother allegedly locked them away in her Charlotte home[/*:m:2ben11jm]
• In September she drove her four children to their father's house in Florida[/*:m:2ben11jm]
• Shocked by their appearance he tried to feed them but discovered they were too starved to swallow[/*:m:2ben11jm]
• Two children spent time in intensive care and received blood transfusions[/*:m:2ben11jm]
• Neighbors of Bell said they were shocked at her arrest because they 'didn't know she had any children'[/*:m:2ben11jm][/list:u:2ben11jm]