Flint Township Mother Facing Multiple Charges for Child Abandonment
A Flint Township woman has been charged with six felonies after leaving her two children home alone for days earlier this month.
Thankfully, a concerned neighbor contacted authorities, who then conducted a welfare check.
Michigan residents and beyond were disgusted and heartbroken after a video surfaced of Flint Township Police discovering the children living in filth. One of the children was reportedly eating rotten meat from the garbage.
The Flint Township Police Department described the scene as follows,
Trash covered the floors so thickly they couldn’t take a normal step. Every movement required careful tiptoeing through someone else’s neglect. A faucet ran endlessly, water spilling onto the floor like a forgotten fountain, the sound echoing through rooms that had gone far too long without adult presence. Feces were smeared along the walls at a child’s height — a heartbreaking sign of little hands left without guidance, without help. There were no clean clothes folded on the bed. No food in the kitchen ready for small stomachs. No phone, no tablet, no way for those children to reach the outside world. It was a house that had been reduced to survival conditions, and two vulnerable children were left inside it alone.
You can watch the full rescue video below. Warning: it is extremely disturbing.
According to ABC 12, 27-year-old mother Krystal Farmer left her children home alone without food or water for roughly five days.
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Krystal Farmer has been arraigned on several charges: two counts of second-degree child abuse, two counts of second-degree child abuse in the presence of another child, two counts of child abandonment, and lying to a peace officer during a violent crime investigation.
Our hearts go out to these children. Respectfully, their whereabouts have not been made public, but we hope they are receiving the love and care they both deserve.
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