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Spring woman charged with child abandonment ordered to undergo mental health evaluation
Angela Kay Huff appeared earlier than a choose after she was charged with 4 counts of abandoning a toddler underneath the age of 15.
HOUSTON — A Spring lady appeared in courtroom Monday morning after deputies say she deserted her 4 babies final week.
Angela Kay Huff appeared earlier than a choose after she was charged with 4 counts of abandoning a toddler underneath the age of 15. She is at the moment out on a $100,000 bond.
The choose has ordered that she bear a psychological well being analysis.
Her lawyer stated Huff has a historical past of psychological sickness. She additionally stated that Huff doesn’t have custody of her youngsters and that they’re being raised by her dad and mom.
Sheriff: 3 youngsters discovered deserted in roadway, one other in a house in Spring
4 younger youngsters, two boys and two women, have been discovered deserted throughout a welfare verify within the Spring space late Thursday evening, in accordance with Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez.
The sheriff stated deputies responded round 11 p.m.to the 4000 block of Cypress Hill Drive after a gaggle of youngsters noticed three of the kids in a driveway, together with one which was nude.
“Operating as much as us, screaming with pleasure, like ‘Oh my gosh, individuals,’” Lizette Lingle stated. “One simply rips off the diaper and comes working on the street bare.”
“We knocked on their entrance door. No person answered,” Johnathan Ubeda stated. “We seemed by means of their entrance window. The whole lot’s a multitude.”
The kids walked inside the house to verify to see if anybody was inside and as they have been on the point of depart, they stated they heard an odd sound.
“After we ignored the home, my girlfriend heard like a thump, like ‘growth,’ then a child began crying, and when she goes again there to look, it is an entire little 1-year-old child,” Ubeda stated.
The kids notified their dad and mom who referred to as deputies.
Whereas it is not clear, the sheriff stated the kids might have been left alone for as much as two days.
The oldest baby, who deputies stated was simply 4 years previous, instructed deputies they thought their mom was useless.
However their dad and mom have been very a lot alive. They have been present in a motel about half an hour away within the 9100 block of Freeway 6.
Huff, the mom of the kids, was later charged. Her boyfriend, Markel Dorsey, 31, was charged with evading arrest and violating a safety order. Court docket paperwork state he violated a bond situation in a separate household violence case by talking with and being in a motel room with Huff.
Dorsey is being held on a $25,000 bond for the cost of violating a safety order and a $2,500 bond for the evading arrest cost.
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