Girls caught in custody battle after parents are killed in head-on collision

On a ditch bank south of Fresno stands a white cross, marking the December 2015 deaths of Matthew Cuellar, 26, and his 24-year-old wife, Sharnae Cuellar.

A week before Christmas, the Cuellars were killed in a head-on collision with a suspected drunken driver that left their three daughters, ages 6, 4 and 2, as orphans.

The children have recovered from their injuries, but they now are innocent victims of a custody battle that pits their relatives in Visalia against relatives in the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians in Placerville.

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