Red Wing parents facing sixteen charges each for allegedly keeping kids in cages for years

(Red Wing, MN) -- A Red Wing, Minnesota couple are accused of abusing and neglecting their children are being charged with multiple felonies.

Benjamin and Christina Cotton are facing sixteen charges each, all related to the alleged abuse of their four children. The kids are between the ages of three to nine years old. Last year, social workers and police found the children being held in makeshift cages inside the family's home. 

Authorities say the children had been kept in the cages for up to four years.