Michigan children found living alone in squalor after mom abandoned them [View all]
Three children were found living alone in "absolute squalor" in a Pontiac, Michigan, rental home after their mother abandoned them years ago, authorities said.
The 34-year-old mother was arrested last week, the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release on Sunday. To protect the identity of the children — aged 15, 13 and 12 — her name was not released.
Sheriff Michael Bouchard called the children's living conditions "abuse of the highest order." Human waste and mold were found inside the home, garbage was thrown everywhere, and the children survived on weekly drop-offs of prepared food, the sheriff's office said.
"This situation would be deemed deplorable and intolerable for an animal, and it is utterly unacceptable for three children," Bouchard said in a statement.
"They have been deprived of any interaction with their mother and have not received an education for years," he continued. "The far-reaching consequences of this abuse must be acknowledged."
Deputies were called to the home on Friday afternoon to conduct a welfare check after the landlord said he had not heard from the mother since December, the news release states. The landlord said the mother had last paid rent in October and he was concerned that something may have happened.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/3-michigan-children-found-living-alone-absolute-squalor-mother-abandon-rcna192562
She obviously didn't teach them anything about caring for themselves or basic hygiene or they wouldn't have been quite so bad off, but the neighbors are complicit too, because they must have known something was up.
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