The 12-year-old girl told cops that she had “not left this hotel room in about a month,” the court filing says
A Texas mother left her two young kids alone in a squalid motel room for weeks on end, stranding them with little food and pulling her 12-year-old daughter from school to care for her 1-year-old brother full-time, according to court filings reviewed by The Daily Beast.
Ashli Rene Lock, 37, was charged with felony child abandonment after police discovered the children living alone in their own filth at a Quality Inn in Houston.states a charging document filed Thursday by the Harris County District Attorney’s Office. She also claimed Lock, who works as a bartender, “has not provided her with adequate food for her baby brother, so she feeds him mac and cheese.”
Officials described the living space as “something resembling a Marvin Zindler inspired nightmare of unsanitary living conditions, with broken bottles on the floor, drugs in plain view, slime in the refrigerator and moldy food haphazardly strewn throughout. To quote the late Mr. Zindler, ‘it's hell to be poor.’ It is even worse to be a poor and neglected child.”“She said that sometimes her mother comes home from work, sometimes not,” the filing continues.
The unidentified 12-year-old also showed cops pictures of injuries she said she sustained from Lock hitting her. She said Lock had taken her out of school in order to look after the 1-year-old boy. The caseLast October, another Houston mom was charged with abandoning her three children, ages 7, 10, and 15. Police said the 8-year-old had been dead for a full year when they found his skeletal remains in one of the home’s bedrooms.
. Child Protective Services is now involved and the kids have been placed with other family, it states.
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