La Joya administrator and her husband have been charged with assaulting their two children.

Mission police confirmed Carlota Salinas and her husband, Javier, were both charged with assaulting their 10-year-old and 15-year-old daughters.

Mission police released few details Friday morning but, sources close to the case told Action 4 News the couple beat their children allegedly with a leather belt for approximately three hours on January 10th in their Mission home.

Corporal Manuel Casas told Action 4 News one child was beaten so bad, the child had welts from her hands to her arms all the way down to her legs.

Investigators learned about the case after a local school district in reported seeing two sister with bruising.

The children were quickly escorted to a local police department where Mission Police was called in to lead the investigation.

We're told Child Protective Services removed the children from the home.

Carlota, a supervisor to the principal at Clinton Elementary in La Joya, was charged with assault.

Her bond is set at $5,000.

Javier was charged with assault and injury to a child.

The children have been removed from the home.