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.
Don’t we have enough colorful characters in SC without having to import them from Texas?
28 years old with 5 kids and how many baby daddies?
Live PD fodder.
How someone could do what she did is beyond me.
Somehow that moron can’t figure out that she needs to stop having children.
My mom would have made sure me and my sister cleaned the house
“Don’t we have enough colorful characters in SC without having to import them from Texas?”
But, but, but I thought that Texas was the “land of milk and honey?” A state that was concerned about “ the unwanted immigration of undesirables from places like California!” Texans, don’t look now, but you’ve got plenty of your own “home-grown” trash to take out, as evidenced by the “woman” in this article.
But look at what a great selfie she takes!
Priorities, man!
So the kids didn’t clean the house?
Uh, anyone check to see how much “WE” are paying for the chirruns?
Excellent taste in beaches. LOL!
Welcome to South Carolina. Now get the heck back to Texas and take care of your children, you flake!
What’s with the puckered mouth thing in selfies???? I see that a lot.
Wonder if people realize how stupid it looks.
LOL! I posted #12 before I saw your post. Great mimes.....
Filthy? Clearly she should have cleaned house before she left. :)
Then again, my child care motto is, “if nobody died, I did my job”.
“Wonder if people realize how stupid it looks.”
Nah. Once they see the likes of a Kardashian do it, all bets are off.
Notice how successive American generations are (by and large) getting dumber since the advent of the internet?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.