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NYC Parents Forced Children to Starve While Buying Fresh Food for Themselves and Locking It Away: Prosecutors

Jah’Meik Modlin, 4, died of dehydration, malnutrition and starvation on Oct. 14, according to a medical examiner. (Credit: WNBC)

Fresh food was reportedly bought and stored inside the New York home where a 4-year-old died of starvation, but the child's parents allegedly locked it away to keep for themselves, according to prosecutors.

During a hearing Wednesday, prosecutors alleged that the child's parents, Laron Modlin and Nytavia Ragsdale, would buy fresh food for themselves, but would store it in the refrigerator and turn it facing the wall so that it could not be opened by their children, according to court records obtained by PIX11.

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