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Posted on 05/17/2025 3:47:32 AM PDT by equaviator
The Brief
Kelli Bryant of Pontiac is headed to trial on charges of child abuse and welfare fraud.
Bryant, 39, is accused of abandoning her three children inside a Pontiac condo for nearly five years.
The children were found living in squalor during a welfare check requested by the landlord.
FOX 2 - The Pontiac mother accused of leaving her three children to live in squalor is headed for trial.
A preliminary exam was held for Kelli Bryant in Oakland County court Friday, where the judge bound over the case in the disturbing child abuse case.
The backstory:
Bryant, 34, was charged with three counts of first-degree child abuse last month after her children were abandoned in a Pontiac condo four or five years ago. Bryant lived at another home and would occasionally drop food off at the home, authorities said.
Also on Friday - Bryant, who is charged with welfare fraud, was bound over by a judge in a separate hearing. She allegedly obtained about $29,400 from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services from January 2022 through Feb. 2025.
The children were found on Feb. 14 after the condo's landlord requested a welfare check. According to authorities, the landlord hadn't heard from Bryant since December, and rent hadn't been paid.
In March, Bryant's communication privileges were taken away for making phone calls from jail to a caretaker, violating a judge's order of having no contact. She was accused of making at least 10 calls and had other inmates makes calls as well.
Child Abuse in the First Degree is punishable by any amount of prison up to life. Welfare Fraud, over $500 is punishable by up to four years in prison and/or a $5000 fine.
WARNING: The details of the child abuse allegations against Bryant, are disturbing.
Deputies arrived and found the home full of garbage – piled as high as four feet in some rooms. The rooms were also covered in mold and human waste. The toilet was overflowing, and the bathtub was full of feces.
The children survived on food that was dropped off on the front porch each week by either their mother or a stranger.
But they had no access to toilet paper or personal hygiene items. The sheriff said they were unfamiliar with personal hygiene and didn't even know how to flush a toilet.
They had also not attended school since she left them and instead passed time by watching TV or playing games. The sheriff said the girls had not been outside in several years.
The boy slept on a mattress on the floor, but the two girls slept on pizza boxes.
According to deputies, neighbors were unaware that children lived in the home and had never seen them. They said they saw their mother at the home each month.
The kids were all wearing soiled clothing with matted hair and toenails so long that it was difficult to walk.
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Darn. And here I was thinking with an everyday name like “Kelli”…never mind
Pardon me for asking, but what about the children’s father?
“I didn’t do nuffin’, you racist pigs!”
She needs some old timey time, making little rocks out of big rocks.
Walz/Harris supporter.
“Pardon me for asking, but what about the children’s father?”
…oh you mean the baby daddy. I’m sure there are several to choose from in any a number of penile er uh penal institutions.
She’s gonna need some dew rags. We don’t want her to have a bad hair day now do we?!
Caning should be legalized in America to handle this type of case.
oh. never mind.
Thank God there are no pictures of the apartment….
I believe in these instances they are called sperm donors, and their only function is to provide the mother with a larger taxpayer funded welfare check. These poor children never had a 'mother' or 'father'.
Or grandparents.......
I can’t tell you how much I hate seeing FReepers write that phrase “didn’t do nuffin.” It’s classless. Go ahead and defend that shit that makes us look like racist morons.
How could she afford two places - condo for the kids and wherever she was living? Five years and none of the children get out through the door or window and call on a neighbor for help? I don’t understand this story at all.
Truly feral children
How could the neighbors not notice the stench? Not to mention the insects and rodents that would have had to infest the place.
The neighbors places likely smelled as bad and were also infested with vermin.
That possibility had crossed my mind.
LOL. It is what it is if you axe me.
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