a Texas mother left her kids (age 12 and 3) home alone for 7 weeks. [View all]
Police and U.S. Marshals launched an investigation into Raven Yates that resulted in her arrest at an apartment complex in Mobile on Wednesday, March 8.
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Yates is alleged to have left her daughter and son, aged 12 and 3, respectively, at her home in Houston from September 8, 2022, until both were discovered by the older child's father on November 14.
A release shared by the Roman Forest Police Department on Wednesday stated the children couldn't get food for a lot of that time.
It added: "The concerned father reported to the Roman Forest Police that his 12-year-old daughter has been home alone with her 3-year-old brother since September 28, 2022, much of the time without access to food or medical supplies.
"The father immediately flew in from California where he had been working at the time. The father had been informed that his child's mother had been seen in Mobile, Alabama, without her children and realized they were home alone because he had been asked by his daughter to send food regularly."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/mom-accused-of-leaving-kids-alone-for-7-weeks-flashes-smile-during-arrest/ar-AA18oM6V
The family realized the children had been left alone when the mother was seen in another state without her children.
Police did their investigation, and then on Dec. 8, 2022, they obtained an arrest warrant against Yates.
“US Marshals Gulf Coast Violent Offender Fugitive Task Force followed a tip to an apartment complex in Mobile Alabama the apartment manager confirmed Yates was staying with a male in the complex,” officers said. “At 4:30pm the male friend cooperated with entry into the apartment where Yates was apprehended.”
https://lawandcrime.com/crime/this-smiling-texas-woman-allegedly-abandoned-her-3-year-old-son-and-12-year-old-daughter-for-more-than-a-month/
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