A MOTHER is wanted by police for allegedly abandoning her two young children with barely any food for nearly two months.
Raven Yates, 31, of Roman Forest, Texas, allegedly left her 12-year-old daughter and three-year-old son alone at their home, said police.
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The mother reportedly left the children alone in late September and they weren’t discovered until nearly two months later.
“No food in the house; everything was empty,” said Roman Forest police chief, Stephen Carlisle.
“There were some dry beans and spices. That was it.”
Investigators said the fridge and cabinets were nearly empty and the toddler’s room smelled like heavy urine.
“A 12-year-old cannot take care of a 3-year-old for a long period of time, especially over a month and a half,” said Carlisle.
“It’s dangerous and irresponsible of a parent. Without medical supplies or ways to get food, that’s very dangerous.”
The children have different fathers, said police, and Yates allegedly threatened her elder child that the girl’s father would take her and leave her three-year-old brother alone if she told anyone.
Afraid of her mother, the daughter would get her father to order food to the house by telling him that her mother was working.
However, family members spotted Yates in Mobile, Alabama without the children and contacted the child’s father.
According to Carlisle, the 12-year-old’s father, who lives in California, flew to Texas and called police when he learned of the children’s living conditions.
Carlisle added that the children had never been enrolled in school for the entire year they lived in Texas.
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