Posted on 03/12/2019 8:42:05 AM PDT by Gamecock
The mother of five young children left them alone in a filthy home for days while she went to a beach more than 1,200 miles away in South Carolina, Texas police say.
Round Rock, Texas, police say Chrystal Walraven was in Myrtle Beach, where she “went to the beach and visited a male friend,” when police discovered her kids alone in a home that smelled like feces and garbage, KXAN reported.
Court records show the 28-year-old said she went to South Carolina last summer in search of a job and “because she needed to get away with everything that was happening at home,” according to the Austin American-Statesman.
What Walraven left behind were two sons, ages 12 and 10 years old, and three daughters who are 6 and 3 years old along with a 15-month-old baby, the newspaper reported.
Police visited the home after being notified by an elementary school principal, who said the children complained “about having to stay up all night to change their sibling’s diapers,” per KTBC.
When they searched the house, investigators thought the baby was dead because they found her covered by a blanket in a crib, and did not breathe until she was rubbed by one of the responding officers, according to KXAN.
According to court records, the house was a mess, “with stained carpets, scattered dirty diapers, and accessible knives,” KTBC reported.
The kids were removed from the home and, after being placed in foster care they are now living with relatives, a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services said, according to the Austin American-Statesman.
Police said even after they contacted Walraven, her return from South Carolina was delayed more than once, but she took responsibility for leaving her kids, saying it was something she should not have done, per KXAN. Still, Walraven said she asked a neighbor in addition to the father of one of the children to help watch them.
“No, definitely didn’t abandon them,” Walraven said, the TV station reported. “They were supposed to be here with the children and did not do that.”
They were not arrested, but Walraven was charged with two counts of second-degree abandoning or endangering a child, imminent danger bodily injury, according to the Williamson County Jail inmate database. Jail records show the 28-year-old was released after her bond was set at a combined $30,000 on the charges.
While Walraven returned to Texas on Aug. 30, 2018, she was not arrested until Feb. 11 because police said they “needed to conduct a thorough investigation,” the Austin American-Statesman reported.
If convicted, Walraven could face a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison on each charge, per KTBC.
Guppies....
Well in her defense, she DID tell those brats to have that house cleaned up before she got back.
Brats. They trashed the house. They should clean it up.
Lot of nice golf courses in Myrtle Beach. Great golf packages available. If she said that’s why she left, I’d be sympathetic.
Irresponsible stressed out young mother. But where were the daddies?
“...If convicted, Walraven could face a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison on each charge.”
Sure hope that beach vacation with her male “friend” was worth it. And that she’s not pregnant again.
She's a life support system for a vag. "Daddies" are optional. Cucumbers last longer, and don't have emotional ties.
No doubt, the kids were getting their meals at school.
..And I would have gotten away with it too,
if it wasn’t for those meddling School Principals!”
I just don’t get what it’s supposed to be. It sure as hell isn’t attractive.
“Then again, my child care motto is, “if nobody died, I did my job”.
Yep, only wake me if something is bleeding or on fire.
Myrtle Beach attracts them.
If they had cleaned up the house before she left, she might have let them go to the beach with her...
I listen to Old Time Radio. There’s an old “Dragnet” episode from the 1950s where an alcoholic mom leaves her 4 young children in squalor chasing some fling to Mexico.
“What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.”
Ecclesiasties 1:9
You mean you don’t find fish and duck lip poses on plain/average faces SEXSAAY?
What is? is. What was? will be. What will be *was*, but will be again.
What an absolute loser. It would be better if some such idiots wouldn’t have children.
Sophia Loren was sexy.
Marilyn Monroe was sexy.
Audrey Hepburn was sexy (in a girl next door way)
Raquel Welch was sexy.
Veronica Lake was sexy.
Rita Hayworth was sexy.
Elizabeth Taylor was sexy.
Fish/duck lips are not. It’s just stupid.
What’s up with those photos? Well, she’s advertising her most important ‘skill-set’, that’s what. :P
Ok, where are the sperm donor for the kids? I know the sperm donor weren’t living with the kids, so the ‘mom’ was an idiot. Hey, lady, did everyone in Texas got fed up with you, so you had to go to another to victimize another guy? Hope shell never see her kids again...
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