Very odd story, not at all the typical "horrific child abuse" narrative one might surmise from the headline.  Definitely a "developing", the embedded link to ABC News Radio describes an armed standoff before this.

By Jamiles Lartey in New Orleans for TheGuardian.com, Aug. 6

Police in rural New Mexico have rescued 11 children from a “squalid” makeshift compound after receiving a tip that they were “starving” and desperately in need of food and water.

The children, ranging in age from one to 15, were turned over to state child-welfare workers. “They were skinny, their ribs showed, they were in very poor hygiene and very scared,” Taos county Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe told ABC News Radio.

[....] the five adults and 11 children “looked like third world country refugees not only with no food or fresh water, but with no shoes, personal hygiene and basically dirty rags for clothing”.

There was little food in the compound, which consisted of a small travel trailer buried in the ground and covered by plastic with no water, plumbing and electricity, Hogrefe said. According to authorities, the two men, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj and Lucan Morton, were heavily armed with rifles, pistols and a large cache of ammunition, and were believed to be Muslim extremists [.....]

All the adults found at the compound are related, and are either children or children-in-law of Brooklyn Imam Siraj Wahhaj, the father of Siraj Ibn Wahhaj. In a series of posts since January, the Imam has been asking for help in locating his missing family. Neither Ramzi nor Imam Wahhaj could immediately be reached for comment.

FBI agents had surveilled the compound for several weeks leading up to last week’s raid, but did not find probable cause to conduct a search. Then Hogrefe’s office received a message, thought to have come from someone inside, which read “we are starving and need food and water,” via an unidentified third party [....]