DETROIT (AP) — Donations of clothes and money are pouring in for three children who were “basically abandoned” by their mother for years, living alone in a suburban Detroit home among trash and feces, a sheriff said Tuesday.
“You wouldn't do this to an animal let alone your child,” Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard said.
Bouchard said the mother would occasionally leave food on the porch at the Pontiac home but lived elsewhere and had little contact with the children, a 15-year-old boy and two girls, ages 13 and 12. She's now in jail while prosecutors consider filing charges.