How a mother did this to her children!

[Lowell]

The reports state that the only time the boy went outside was to get the mail and to touch the grass, so that explains the mail.

I saw that but I heard he only went out twice, once to get Mail and once to “feel the grass”. However he must have gone out to bring in the DoorDash deliveries the mother sent. It also begs the question of how he knew when to do so. Was there a phone? Feeding 3 kids would involve a sizable amount of deliveries.

[jcole]

There was a phone where they would text the mother to bring food if they ran out and they would occasionally order DoorDash for a loaf of bread or something if they ran out of food. Sounds like the brother tried to look after the sisters

[EASTSIDER BALDUCK]

It sure beats the "trailer park" stereotypes, as well. I mean, this row of houses seem like a pretty comfy middle class soccer mom type environment. I’m thinking people have to quit looking at their phones and start checking on their neighbours.

Projects, where the old state mental hospital was.

[Pam]

Agree. Can't believe the neighbors didn't realize there were unsupervised kids living in that house. It's not like they were living on a street with no other houses on it.

I can't believe the neighbors didn't smell the garbage. And the landlord never came around to inspect the property?

[Maof]

Mother of the year......https://images.foxtv.com/static.fox2....jpg?ve=1&tl=1

[Danny]

The mother's ex-husband has another child under his custody. When he and the kid found out about her ex-wife siblings were living their horrid conditions. They will be shocked.

What a psycho that mother is.

[Danny]

I can't believe the neighbors didn't smell the garbage. And the landlord never came around to inspect the property?

When the hot temperatures and the bugs come into their neighbor's apts. They will know about the smell and the bugs come from. Right next door however the smell and bugs were not detected because of a strong barrier that separates from other units.

[Zacha341]

Sounds like massive disorder on many levels increasingly being revealed. Did the siblings [let alone the father] ever ask about the other children - talk on the phones/ face time?

That would have revealed alot.

Also, if the children were at some point registered with a public school district someone there may have enquired. At the start of the school year some districts do home visits.

This especially so after the pandemic when many children experienced the long gap in attending in person.

The mother's ex-husband has another child under his custody. When he and the kid found out about her ex-wife siblings were living their horrid conditions. They will be shocked...

[Jimaz]

Crews begin cleaning out home where
3 Pontiac kids were left abandoned for years

Cleaning crews were on site at the home where three Pontiac kids were left abandoned and living in squalor for years. Our 7 News Detroit team was outside of the home where we saw crews bringing out furniture and dozens of pizza boxes. Police said the two youngest girls – ages 12 and 13 – slept on pizza boxes.

[jcole]

From what I've heard, the father was in prison and when he got out the mother told him he had no access to the children. She lied to the school and told them that she moved them to another school. Apparently there is no policy in the school system that one school checks to see if the kids were actually reenrolled in the new school. The grandparents, who now have the kids, apparently didn't ask about them in 5 years.

Sounds like massive disorder on many levels increasingly being revealed. Did the siblings [let alone the father] ever ask about the other children - talk on the phones/ face time?

That would have revealed alot.

Also, if the children were at some point registered with a public school district someone there may have enquired. At the start of the school year some districts do home visits.

This especially so after the pandemic when many children experienced the long gap in attending in person.

[Lowell]

I saw that but I heard he only went out twice, once to get Mail and once to “feel the grass”. However he must have gone out to bring in the DoorDash deliveries the mother sent. It also begs the question of how he knew when to do so. Was there a phone? Feeding 3 kids would involve a sizable amount of deliveries.

Answering my own questions after today’s reading...

1- Regarding phone service, it was revealed that each of the kids had a phone. This could be very telling. The call logs or other traffic should tell a lot. Who they called, how often, when, more. Also, the bills for their service had to have been paid.


2- It was revealed that the oldest, the male, did go out to bring in the mail.

[Zacha341]

Those children will require a great deal of care and restoration beyond this!

The mother receives a 250MIL bond for severity of crime and flight risk.

[Henry Whalley]

Crews begin cleaning out home where3 Pontiac kids were left abandoned for years

Not my ideal job, but I'm sure that Punxsutawney Don will cut their wages, raise their taxes, steal their SSA and health care, and bust their union, if they have a union.

[preserve]

so many lost "Mother of Year" awards - one kills and buries her child, another has children freeze to death in her van and then this pitiful neglect. How many more that we don't hear about?

[EASTSIDER BALDUCK]

Thousands.

[Lowell]

Whoa. Just when you think something can't be topped, here comes this from Connecticut from today's New York Times.

Woman Imprisoned and Starved Stepson for 20 Years, Police Say

Emergency workers responding to a fire in Waterbury, Conn., found the man, 32, who weighed only 68 pounds and had been held captive in a tiny room.

Emergency workers in Waterbury, Conn., who responded to a house fire last month said they discovered a shocking scene: After they rescued a woman, they found her emaciated adult stepson, who said he had started the fire in a desperate bid to break free of the tiny room where she had imprisoned him for two decades.

Snippet...

Ever since, he told investigators, “nearly every day” of his life was the same. He was let out of his room for brief periods every morning and made to do chores, like tidying the house or cleaning his stepmother’s car.

Then he would be locked in his room again, where he would eventually go to sleep. He would typically wake up before dawn and wait for his stepmother to let him out to do his chores again.

He passed the time by listening to a radio placed on the other side of his door, counting the cars that drove past his window, or by reading and rereading a dictionary or a handful of books he was allowed to keep in his room, according to court documents.

The man said he was not allowed to leave the room to use the bathroom, so when he was let out each morning he would dispose of his waste. He was made to defecate onto newspapers that were laid out on the floor of his room, and to urinate in a water bottle that he could pour out a window.

He did not try to escape the home when he was let out each day because he thought the stakes were too high.

His stepmother had threatened to reduce his daily food allowance or subject him to longer lock-ins, and told him if he tried to run away that he “would not see the light of day,” he told the police. And he knew from his housecleaning routine that she kept a gun in the home.

“Under pain of death, no one was to see me,” he said. “I have been kept a secret my entire life.”

Every day, his stepmother gave him a snack and two sandwiches to eat, usually peanut butter and jelly, deli meat or tuna or chicken salad. She also gave him two small bottles of water each day. He told the police he had not received medical care in years and that pieces of his teeth often broke off when he ate.

When investigators asked if he had ever experienced hunger, he replied, “All day, every day, my entire life,” according to court documents.

The man said he had not put much planning into the decision to set the fire.

He used hand sanitizer, printer paper and a lighter he had found in a coat packet while doing his chores to start the blaze on the floor of his room, and waited until it had gotten large enough to scream for help from his stepmother.

He said he was retrieved from the room by his stepmother and another person whose identity was redacted in the court documents. They then rushed to wash his face and tried to remove the slide bolt lock from the outside of the door frame, in an effort to keep firefighters from realizing what his stepmother had been doing to him, he said.

When the firefighters arrived, the man said he had purposely collapsed onto the floor and ignored his stepmother’s orders to stand up. He thought the firefighters would realize the gravity of the situation if they were forced to lift him off the floor.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/n...smid=url-share