Decide units $250M bond for Michigan mother accused of retaining 3 youngsters alone in squalor

 A choose set a $250 million bond Thursday for a Michigan lady who’s accused of leaving three youngsters alone for years in a home the place situations had been so offensive that police proof technicians wore hazmat fits.

Kelli Bryant, 34, shook her head at instances throughout her first court docket look on baby abuse prices in Oakland County. Her lawyer entered a not responsible plea on her behalf.

Three youngsters, ages 15, 13 and 12, had been eliminated final week from a home in Pontiac the place that they had lived on their very own since 2020 or 2021, amid trash and feces and occasional meals drops on the porch, police stated.

Protection lawyer Cecilia Quirindongo-Baunsoe acknowledged the “very severe case,” however she stated Bryant was not a danger to the group and may very well be launched from jail with an digital monitoring gadget.

Decide Ronda Fowlkes Gross, nevertheless, set the extraordinary money bond and stated Bryant was an “acute danger” to the general public.

The youngsters had been hiding when police entered the house Friday after a name from the owner, who had not been paid since October. Authorities stated the bathroom did not work and feces had been discovered within the tub and different locations. Bryant was residing elsewhere in Pontiac.

“There is a multitude of explanation why they did not go away the house,” prosecutor Karen McDonald stated of the siblings. “We simply do not know that but.”