Sheriff says that abandoned children make “amazing progress”, but turn out a long journey

Pontiac, with three children who were saved from a Pontiac Townhouse last week, make progress, but are faced with several long-term hurdles. During a press conference on Tuesday, the Sheriff of Oakland County Michael Bouchard gave a short update about the children when they continued to be reorganized after they had been left by their mother for several years.

Bouchard said that the child-like 15-year-old boy, a 13-year-old girl and a 12-year-old girl sausage each interviewed forensically from the Care House and that further physical and psychological examinations will take place. Hopefully later this week. The children have received support and their hygiene have also dealt.

“They were already making amazing progress,” said Bouchard about the children after they were interviewed before adding: “The only detective said the little girl spoke a lot.”

When the police found the children in the house, the two girls joined in the bathroom and refused to get out for a while before they finally initiated the police.

Bouchard repeated that he has never seen anything like the conditions in which the children lived. The garbage was up to 4 feet in some areas, while mold and feces littered the town house. The children were found in dirty clothing and had so long toenails that they were painful for them.

“You wouldn’t do that to an animal, let alone your child,” said Bouchard.

So far, the mother of the children, who has been arrested last week, has not identified to protect the identity of the children, has no reason why she allegedly left her children. Bouchard said the woman talking to the police, but they have not yet found a motif.

While he confirmed that the mother was arrested in a different residence in Pontiac, he would not disclose who the woman lived with at that time.

Bouchard was also unable to give details of why the children were afraid to leave the house for so long.

“They were just afraid. I don’t know that she said something special that she allowed us, but they were afraid to go, I know so much, ”said Bouchard.

In the almost five years in which they were alone, the boy supposedly said that he had only left the house twice. Once to check the email and once because he wanted to feel the grass.

The children survived from Essen, deposed by the mother and left behind on the veranda or by delivery services. Bouchard said there is currently no evidence that someone had an idea of ​​what was going on at home with one of the delivery services.

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The investigators say that the mother last submitted the cleaning supplies in 2020 and that grocery deliveries have recently become sparse.

“Towards the end, the children apparently dropped a bread bread that intends to take three to four days,” said Bouchard.

While the children are doing better, they face a long way after lived alone for so long. Together with physical and mental health care, the children also need educational reviews to determine where they are from the learner.

Bouchard said the task seems to have taken place in spring/summer 2020 when the Covid 19 pandemic was in the early stages. Since the children have not been at school for at least five years, it is unclear how far they are behind it, Bouchard said.

“You hear how many children in this country have fallen back from a year of a year, imagine where these children are,” said Bouchard. “In terms of sharpness and mental health, we have no idea that we have a reference.”

The case was handed over to the public prosecutor’s office of Oakland County, Karen McDonald’s office, to check charges.