JEFF & SANDRA WELLER 'TORTURED' ADOPTED TWINS

EVIL?

TO THEIR neighbors they looked like a kindly couple, with a large but happy family made up of kids from their marriages, included two adopted twins. 
But behind closed doors cops now say Jeff and Sandra Weller were far from nice and they've now accused them of starving and beating the 16-year-old siblings who were adopted as toddlers in California by Sandra Weller and her first husband.
According to a court document, they told cops: “for as long as they can recall, food in the home has been under lock and key, and they are fed very small amounts of food an average of once a day."
When they were caught, the Wellers forced them to take off their pants and underwear and lie on the kitchen floor while Jeff Weller beat them with a 42in wooden stick, often making them bleed.
Neighbours in the quiet suburban street told The Columbian that they had suspected something was wrong for a while and are regretting not acting earlier.
Just last month, one neighboring family discovered three large containers of Greek yogurt missing from their refrigerator while another discovered ripe tomatoes had been snatched from their vines.

Yelena Makhanov, 24, who lives across the road told the paper: "It's heart-breaking. I feel guilty that this was going on 30ft away from our front door."

The Wellers are set to be arraigned on October 27 on the assault, imprisonment and criminal mistreatment charges.

Jeffrey Weller also faces charges of strangling and beating the 16-year-old girl, who originally alerted the authorities by slipping a note to someone, Vancouver police said. 
Child welfare workers removed them from the home, along with 14 and 12-year-old sons from Jeffrey Weller's earlier marriage, a 10-year-old son from Sandra Weller's first marriage and a four-year-old boy from the Weller union.