A Los Angeles-area couple is charged with murder after trying to cross into Mexico with the body of a two-year-old girl in a duffel bag.
Mercy Becerra and Johnny Hartley also are charged with torture, assault on a child causing death and sex trafficking of the girl's mother.
The couple, who were charged last week, remain in jail in Los Angeles County and could face life sentences if convicted.
Prosecutors say the couple trafficked a woman between 2012 and this August, seized her daughter, brutally abused the child and killed the girl two months ago.
Authorities say they were arrested on August 9 at the San Ysidro border station after Mexican authorities X-rayed the duffel bag and discovered the girl's body.
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