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The sentence is from [a Japanese telling of Hansel and
Gretel](http://www.firegrubs.com/images/chokochoko/pdf/readingarticle0027.pdf)
and I know enough to read it as "Leave your children in the forest before it
is too late."

What I don't understand here is how すてる has been modified by きておくれ. What does
that き relate to? Is it part of すててき to change (discard) somehow or is it
something like (leave)(come here)(without delay)?
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Struggling to parse last section of 「あんた　子どもたちを　森へ　すててきておくれ」
As per the comments, you should parse すててきておくれ as すてて + きて + おくれ.

  * Without changing the content or function you can replace おくれ by ください (more about おくれ [here](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/13337/1628))、

  * すてて is the te-form of すてる (here) "to cast away",

  * きて is the te-form of くる "to come [back]",

  * Xてくる is a common construction of saying "to go, do X [and then return]", but as indicated you might not necessarily translate the くる as "return"

  * Xてください is the construction for phrasing a request "Please do X"

> すてて + きて + ください  
>  Please go cast away [the children] [and come back when you're done]
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