The owner of a group home raided last week amid charges of abuse and other mistreatment of children living there has been released from custody without charge, an official in the federal Attorney General's Office said Sunday.
The official said there was not enough evidence to warrant charges and added that the 79-year-old owner, Rosa Verduzco, is too old to be put in jail.
But the official also said the investigation was continuing. The official agreed to reveal the information only if not quoted by name because he wasn't authorized to speak with journalists about the . . .
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