Couple kept boys in filthy cages,say police

A COUPLE accused of keeping their twin boys locked in filthy makeshift cages for 20 hours a day have been charged with child abuse.

Police in Phoenix, Arizona, were tipped off by an older brother about the squalid living conditions endured by the five-year-olds.

Officers arrived at the home to find the boys locked in two cots that had been wired together and sealed with plastic crates.