Witnesses Call Abuse Suspects Good Parents

LOGAN -- A dual picture was painted in a Logan courtroom on Tuesday of a couple bound over for trial on charges they abused their 6-year-old adopted daughter. During a preliminary hearing for Chris and Rebecca Tucker, witnesses testified that the Trenton couple seemed like devoted parents to their two boys and 4-year-old adopted daughter while at the same time neglecting the 6-year-old they kept in a squalid basement room.

``She looked like a live corpse,'' said Cache County Sheriff's Sgt. James Meacham of the girl in 1st District Judge Gordon Low's courtroom.

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