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Not guilty pleas in mistreatment case

Jon Pomeroy and Rebecca Long attend their arraignment hearing in Seattle on Monday. Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Mike Kane Seattle Post-Intelligencer / The Spokesman-Review)
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Jon Pomeroy and Rebecca Long attend their arraignment hearing in Seattle on Monday. Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Mike Kane Seattle Post-Intelligencer / The Spokesman-Review)

SEATTLE – The Carnation couple accused of withholding water from their 14-year-old daughter have pleaded not guilty to charges of criminal mistreatment.

Jon Pomeroy and Rebecca Long remained free on $20,000 bail each after Monday’s arraignment in King County Superior Court.

A spokesman for prosecutors, Dan Donohoe, said the judge issued a no-contact order to prevent them from seeing their children.

They were charged Oct. 13 after an investigation that began when a sheriff’s deputy went to the home because a neighbor reported a scream. The deputy found the teenage girl weighed only 48 pounds and was suffering from dehydration.

Her 12-year-old brother appeared healthy. Police and state workers put both of them in foster care.