Police find remains of starving boy in bin

THE remains of a seven-year-old boy were found in a plastic storage bin, a day after his two brothers were found alive but starving in a locked room in the same house, authorities said.

Police were searching for the woman in whose care the children had been left several months ago.

The dead boy, Faheem Williams, had been dead for weeks when he was found on Sunday, Edward Gordon of the Essex County Prosecutor's Office told The Newark Star-Ledger. An autopsy was ordered.

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