Texas Mom Charged Over 'Malnourished and Filthy' Kids
A Texas mother abandoned her two young kids in a squalid motel room for weeks on end, leaving them with little food and pulling her 12-year-old daughter from school to care for her 1-year-old brother full-time, according to court filings reviewed by The Daily Beast.
Ashli Rene Lock, 37, is charged with felony child abandonment by authorities after police discovered the children living alone in their own filth at a Quality Inn in Houston.
Officers noted that both of the children appeared malnourished and filthy, states a charging document filed Thursday by the Harris County District Attorneys Office. The one year old was sleeping in a soiled diaper.
The 12-year-old girl told cops that she had not left this hotel room in about a month, the court filing says. She also claimed Lock, who works as a bartender, has not provided her with adequate food for her baby brother, so she feeds him mac and cheese.
Officials described the living space as something resembling a Marvin Zindler inspired nightmare of unsanitary living conditions, with broken bottles on the floor, drugs in plain view, slime in the refrigerator and moldy food haphazardly strewn throughout. To quote the late Mr. Zindler, it's hell to be poor. It is even worse to be a poor and neglected child.
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