Trial has been postponed for two North Platte residents accused of locking two young boys in a dog kennel.

The trials of 24-year-old Samantha Eyten and 20-year-old Lacy Beyer were supposed to begin Tuesday, but are now set for Feb. 13 in Lincoln County District Court.

The women are each charged with two counts of felony child abuse and two counts of first-degree false imprisonment. They and two other adults have been charged after police conducted a welfare check at the mobile home they shared in October and found two boys, ages 3 and 5, in a wire dog kennel.

The boys’ mother, Ashly Cark, told police she put the boys in the kennel to keep them from climbing out a window.