A judge set a deposit of 250 million dollars Thursday for a woman from Michigan who is accused of having left three children alone for years in a house where the conditions were so offensive that the technicians of proof of the police wore combinations danger.
Kelli Bryant, 34, sometimes rocked his head during his first appearance in justice for accusations of child abuse in the County of Oakland. His lawyer pleaded not guilty in his name.
Three children, aged 15, 13 and 12, were withdrawn last week from a house in Pontiac where they have lived alone since 2020 or 2021, in the midst of the garbage and excrement and drops of occasional food on the porch, announced the police.
Defense lawyer Cecilia Quirindongo-Baunsoe recognized the “very serious case”, but said that Bryant was not a risk to the community and could be released from prison with an electronic surveillance device.
Judge Ronda Fowlkes Gross, however, set the extraordinary cash obligation and said Bryant was a “acute risk” for the public.
The children hid when the police entered the house on Friday after a call from the owner, who had not been paid since October. The authorities said that the toilet did not work and that the excrement was found in the bathtub and other places. Bryant lived elsewhere in Pontiac.
“There are a multitude of reasons for which they did not leave the house,” said prosecutor Karen McDonald about the brothers and sisters. “We don’t know that yet.”
