There was nothing particularly ominous-looking outside a Schenectady, New York, home, but on the inside authorities called it a “house of horrors” where a 5-year-old girl starved to death and her 3-year-old brother was locked in a cage.
Their father, Robert S. Buskey, Jr., 35, pleaded guilty on Friday to second-degree murder in the death of Charlotte Buskey, the Schenectady County District Attorney’s Office said in a press release.
Cops responded to the home on Elmer Avenue on April 14, 2024, for an unresponsive 5-year-old girl. Authorities entered a “deplorable” home where they found Buskey’s 3-year-old son locked in a cage in the living room. They discovered Charlotte’s “emaciated” body in her bedroom with her eyes “sunken into her skull,” prosecutors said…