The judge set $ 250 million bonds for a woman from Michigan on Thursday, who is accused of leaving three children in peace for years at home in which the conditions were so offensive that police technicians wore hazmat suits.
34 -year -old Kella Bryant shook her head during the first speech of the court regarding the use of children in Oakland. Her lawyer made an innocent request on her behalf.
Three children aged 15, 13 and 12 were removed last week from the house in Pontiac, where they lived alone from 2020 or 2021, the police, among garbage and feces, and occasional drops of food on the porch.
The defense lawyer Cecilia Quirindongo-Baunsoe awarded “a very serious matter”, but she said that Bryant is not a risk to the community and can be released from prison using an electronic monitoring device.
Judge Ronda Fowlkes Gross, however, set an extraordinary cash bond and said that Bryant is a “sharp risk for the audience.
The children were hiding when the police entered the house on Friday by phone from the owner who had not been paid since October. The authorities said that the toilet did not work, and feces were found in a bathtub and other places. Bryant lived elsewhere in Pontiac.
“There are many reasons why they did not leave the house,” said prosecutor Karen McDonald about siblings. “We just don't know it yet.”