SHOCKING NEWS: Father 'forced abused daughter to brush teeth with faeces and wear shock collar' - Read Full Story ...

Cheyanne Chalkley and James Howard Chalkley are accused of severely abusing children using belts, switches and a shock collar, among other tactics.

Cheyanne Chalkley is charged with two counts of injury to a child, and James Howard Chalkley is also charged with one count.

Three children reportedly told Child Protective Services investigators that they had been badly beaten with belts and "switches." Investigators found multiple bruises and abrasions on their skin.

One child also said that both Cheyanne and James Chalkley "take turns" spanking her.

A child also said James Chalkley has "used a shock collar on her," and that it "hurt more" than being spanked with a belt. The child also reportedly told investigators that it was the same type of shock collar used on dogs.

Among these horrific allegations, a child also accused James Chalkley of putting "poop" on her toothbrush and brushing her teeth so hard with it that "it caused her to bleed."

This comes after he believed the children involved "intentionally refused to clean up 'cat feces'" in a closet, according to an arrest warrant.

Man killed, teacher freed in California school standoff

Students and staff at an elementary school in California were safely evacuated Tuesday after a disturbance involving a parent who allegedly barricaded himself inside a classroom with a female teacher. The suspect was shot by police and later pronounced dead at a hospital, police said.

According to Riverside police, the incident started just before noon when the suspect stormed into the school. The man, identified by police as 27-year-old Luvelle Kennon of Riverside, allegedly punched a substitute teacher in the face and broke his nose before taking the female teacher hostage.

Officer Ryan Railsback said that officers and SWAT team members isolated the classroom and then helped to evacuate students and staff.

Negotiators had not heard from the victim while talking to the suspect, so the decision was made to go in and rescue her, police said.

The teacher was also transported to a hospital after being rescued, but suffered only minor injuries, according to the Riverside Police Department.

The motive was unknown.

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Riverside Unified School District said that all students at Castle View Elementary had been accounted for, were safe and had been reunited with parents or guardians with proper photo identification. Students were in lunch at the time and not in the classroom, officials said.

"Our officers responded up to Castle View Elementary School ... for some type of disturbance, possibly involving one of the parents. When they arrived, they learned that there was some type of altercation that occurred and now a parent was barricaded inside one of the classrooms with what we believe is a teacher," Railsback said during a news conference Tuesday.

Railsback said authorities were not sure why the parent was at the school or whether there had been previous issues with the parent at the school. He also said police did not know if the parent had a weapon in the classroom with him.

"As far as we know, nothing's been reported that anyone saw actual weapons of any kind," he said. "He's not responding to our commands for him to come out, so far. ... He's barricaded himself in there and he's got a teacher in there so it'd be a barricaded hostage situation."

ENJOLI FRANCIS