Tami Joy Huntsman wiped tears from her face as she was sentenced to serve life in prison without the possibility of parole or appeal for killing her 3-year old niece, Delylah Tara, and her 7-year old nephew, Shaun Tara, in Salinas.A 9-year-old sibling who survived the horrific child abuse wrote a letter to the court forgiving her aunt.“It’s not good to dislike someone for a long time. So at this time I would love to say I forgive Tami Huntsman and Gonzo (Gonzalo) Curiel for their actions,” wrote Jane Doe, who is now 12 years old."I wanted my sister and brother to know what life meant. Not the meaning of being hurt, sad, and killed. What I miss about Shaun was his (style), laugh, character, and his man walk, plus he was smart. He was the best brother I could have. He would never let me down," Jane Doe wrote. "(Delylah) was the prettiest sister I ever seen." Huntsman, 42, and her then-underage boyfriend, Gonzalo Curiel, turned a bathroom into a torture chamber for the Tara siblings. They starved and beat the three siblings in Huntsman’s small east Salinas apartment.READ MORE: Gonzalo Curiel attacked by inmates in Monterey County JailProsecutors said that the three Tara siblings were "locked in a dark, cold, cement bathroom, often without their clothes, for hours or even days. The children did not understand why they were being punished. When the children were locked in the bathroom, they were forced to sit still in a corner that her torturers selected for them, and were prohibited from moving, crying, or huddling together for warmth."Monterey Count CPS agents were called to the apartment multiple times over concerns of child abuse, but the Tara siblings were left in Huntsman's care. Investigators believe that Shaun and Delylah died around Thanksgiving 2015, from a combination of blunt-force trauma and severe malnutrition."Jane Doe remembers a severe beating in the bathroom, at which point she saw Shaun and Delylah unable to walk, talk, or open their eyes. She overheard an argument between Curiel and Huntsman that night in which Curiel said it was all his fault and that he should just leave. Huntsman begged him to stay. Jane Doe never saw her brother or sister alive again," prosecutors said.AUDIO: Curiel admits to punching Jane DoeDelylah and Shaun's bodies were placed into a blue bin, driven 300 miles north, and hidden in a northern California storage unit.Redding Police Department officer Jeffrey Schmidt, a 20-year law enforcement veteran, was emotional and struggled to speak as he testified about finding the children dead."There was nothing we could do," Schmidt testified. VIDEO: Schmidt testifies about how bodies were foundLaw enforcement officers from three counties compiled a mountain of evidence against Huntsman and Curiel. In February, Huntsman accepted a plea deal in which prosecutors agreed to take the death penalty off the table in exchange for life in prison without the possibility of parole.“She can’t get out she’s waived writs, she’s waived appeals, she agreed that under no circumstances will she ever get out she waived any chance for the governor to ever pardon her,” said prosecutor Steve Somers.Judge Pamela Butler sentenced Huntsman to two life sentences without the possibility of parole and three life sentences.Butler admonished Huntsman for not doing anything to prevent the mental and physical abuse she believed was carried out mostly by Curiel.PHOTOS: 2 kids found dead in storage locker“You engaged in that also and you were the adult. You were the one responsible for protecting those children, and you failed them,” said judge Butler.Huntsman at times wiped away tears, but never said anything.Huntsman's ex-husband, Chris Criswell, said Huntsman and Curiel both deserved the death penalty. "(Curiel) had a weird look in his eyes from the beginning. He had a weird blank stare, like he had no soul, like he could kill someone and not think twice," Criswell told KSBW.A jury found Curiel guilty of all charges after deliberating for less than two hours last month. Curiel was a "sadistic" person who "enjoyed controlling and hurting children," Somers said.Curiel is scheduled to be sentenced June 29. Since he was a minor at the time of the murders, Curiel is eligible for his first parole hearing after serving 25 years.The Monterey County District Attorney's press release is below:"Monterey District Attorney Dean D. Flippo announced today that Tami Joy Huntsman, 42, of Salinas, was sentenced by Judge Pamela Butler for two counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances and two counts of torture in the November 2015 deaths of Shaun Tara, Jr., age 7, and Delylah Tara, age 3. Huntsman also pled guilty to one count of torture and one count of child abusecausing great bodily injury, and two counts of conspiracy, for abuse she inflicted on the children’s half-sister, called “Jane Doe,” who was rescued by a Plumas County deputy at age 9. Pursuant to the stipulated sentence, Judge Butler ordered Huntsman to serve two consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole, three additional consecutive life terms, and 9 more years. She has waived all writs and appeals and will never be released from prison.Shaun, Delylah, and Jane Doe moved into Huntsman's Salinas apartment in April 2014.The children's mother was killed in a car accident in December 2013 and their father, Tami's cousin, was subsequently incarcerated, leaving him unable to care for them. Huntsman, then age 38, lived with her husband and their three biological children in a small apartment on Fremont St.In November 2014, then-16-year-old Gonzalo Curiel, a friend of Huntsman’s oldest son, moved into their apartment. Shortly after moving in, Curiel began a sexual affair with Huntsman.Huntsman’s husband left her when he discovered the affair. In April 2015, Huntsman’s oldest son was arrested and placed in a juvenile facility, leaving Curiel and Huntsman in charge of the household. During Curiel's trial, Jane Doe told the jury how things changed after Huntsman’s son’sincarceration. She testified that while the children were previously treated well, received enough food, and were not beaten, Curiel and Huntsman both began to physically abuse and starve them following the arrest of Huntsman’s son.Jane Doe has related that she and her siblings were punched, choked, kicked, hit with belts and other objects, refused food, zip tied to their beds or chairs, and locked in a dark, cold, cement bathroom, often without their clothes, for hours or even days. The children did not understand why they were being punished. When the children were locked in the bathroom, they were forced to sit still in acorner that her torturers selected for them, and were prohibited from moving, crying, or huddling together for warmth. If they were caught, Curiel and sometimes Huntsman would beat them or spray them with cold water.Jane Doe tried to run away twice because of the abuse. On one occasion, after Curiel caught her trying to escape out the bathroom window, he and Huntsman pulled her into a bedroom and Curiel beat her with a belt while Huntsman held her down. During the beating, Jane Doe’s forearm and shoulder were injured. Huntsman and Curiel refused to get medical treatment for Jane Doe’s displaced shoulder and arm fractures, which caused them to heal improperly. A doctor found that Jane Doe’s broken shoulder bone was close to piercing through her skin at the time she was rescued.Curiel and Huntsman also broke Jane Doe’s jaw and several of her fingers, which had healed improperly. Jane Doe saw her younger brother and sister with bruises and cuts all over their small bodies. Jane Doe said that Curiel and Huntsman started feeding them less and less, and eventually stopped feeding Jane Doe altogether, but she never knew why. She testified that the children were often beaten for urinating on themselves, because they were too scared to ask Huntsman and Curiel for permission to use the bathroom.Investigators believe that Shaun and Delylah died around Thanksgiving 2015, from a combination of blunt-force trauma and severe malnutrition. Jane Doe remembers a severe beating in the bathroom, at which point she saw Shaun and Delylah unable to walk, talk, or open their eyes. She overheard an argument between Curiel and Huntsman that night in which Curiel said it was all his fault and that he should just leave. Huntsman begged him to stay. Jane Doe never saw her brother or sister alive again.Huntsman and Curiel told the other children, and family members who asked, that Shaun and Delylah had been put up for adoption. In fact, Huntsman and Curiel placed their dead bodies into a 35-gallon blue plastic storage container, put the container in the trunk of Huntsman’s SUV, and abruptly packed up and moved in the night to Northern California, never telling anyone that theyplanned to leave. Curiel and Huntsman traveled to several cities in the following weeks, including Dunnigan, Shingletown, Redding, Salinas and ultimately Quincy in Plumas County, where they stayed with a relative of Huntsman. That relative ultimately discovered that Jane Doe was a severely abused child, and she and another friend who verified the abuse called Plumas County Child Protective Services to report it.On December 11, 2015, a deputy from Plumas County Sheriff’s Office discovered Jane Doe locked in Huntsman’s SUV, on the floor of the backseat, covered in a pile of clothing. She was bruised from head to toe, and her arm, shoulder, jaw and fingers were broken. Jane Doe also had pressure sores on her back and legs that a pediatric specialist stated she never sees in children who are able to walk. The deputy arrested Huntsman and Curiel for child abuse. Two days later, Huntsman’s mother called Plumas County Sheriff’s Office to inquire about Shaun and Delylah. The detective sergeant who spoke with her said that his office had no knowledge of who those children were. After a frantic, daylong search, authorities discovered that Huntsman had rented a storage unit at a Redding self-storage company on December 4, 2015. It was inside that storage unit where Redding police officers found the decomposed bodies of Shaun and Delylah, still inside the blue storage container. Fingerprints on the container matched both Curiel and Huntsman.Curiel’s fingerprints were found on a roll of duct tape in Huntsman’s SUV that matched duct tape on the container.Huntsman's co-defendant, Gonzolo Curiel’s jury trial began on April 2 and ended on April 23, following more than two weeks of testimony from 56 different witnesses. The jury deliberated for approximately one hour and 20 minutes before finding Curiel guilty on all counts.Curiel’s sentencing will occur on June 29, 2018. Although Curiel will technically be sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, recent legislation will allow him a mandatory parole hearing after serving 25 years of his life sentence because he was under the age of 18 at the time the murders were committed.The successful prosecution of Curiel and Huntsman would not have been possible without the cooperation of the Shasta County District Attorney’s Office, Plumas County District Attorney’s Office, Salinas Police Department, Plumas County Sheriff’s Office, Redding Police Department, Shasta County Sheriff’s Office, Butte County Probation Department, and the Yuba City Police Department. The lead investigators on the case were Christina Gunter of the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office and Detective Gabriel Gonzalez of the Salinas Police Department. The prosecutors also recognize Detective Sergeant Steven Peay, Detective Christopher Hendricksonand Deputy Tyler Hermann all from the Plumas County Sheriff's Office for their extraordinary efforts to save Jane Doe and locate her siblings."