The foster parents of five children who endured years of abuse in what prosecutors have called a "house of torture" were sentenced to one year behind bars today.

Circuit Court Judge Virginia Crandall also sentenced Gabriel and Barbara Kalama to five years probation.

On Friday, Rita Makekau was also sentenced to five years in prison for abusing the children.

Gabriel Kalama, 31, pleaded no contest in August to two counts of second-degree assault and five counts of abuse of a family member.

Deputy Prosecutor Lori Wada has said that Makekau was the "worst offender" in the abuse case, but alleged that Gabriel Kalama beat one child with a belt "for jumping on a bed" and forced another to eat a sibling's feces. Barbara Kalama, 28, pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree child endangerment and six counts of abuse of a family member.

Prosecutors were seeking a five-year prison term for Gabriel Kalama, and a one-year term for Barbara Kalama.

Wada said the sentencing today was a "miscarriage of justice."

"I am disappointed," she said, after the sentencing.