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WARNING: This article discusses allegations of child abuse and may be upsetting to some readers.

Allegations that two children were beaten for years, starved, forced to sleep outdoors and ultimately abandoned at an Oranga Tamariki office sit at the centre of charges against three people.

On Monday, the trial against two men and one woman from the Far North began at the Whangārei District Court, before a jury and Judge Philip Rzepecky.

The trio, who cannot be named, are

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