https://abc13.com/childs-skeletal-remains-found-3-kids-abandoned-southwest-harris-county-deputies-sheriffs-office/11163555/
Heartbreaking. @HCSOTexas units are at an apt complex at 3535 Green Crest, near Addicks Clodine & Westpark Tollway. Units found three juveniles abandoned in an apartment. Skeletal remains, possibly of another juvenile, were also found inside the unit. #HouNews pic.twitter.com/uVcybOugM9
— Ed Gonzalez (@SheriffEd_HCSO) October 24, 2021
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The sheriff's office says they received a call from a 15-year-old claiming that his 9-year-old brother had been dead for a year in the apartment he shared with his siblings.
The teenage boy also told 911 dispatchers that his parents had not lived in the apartment with him and his two living siblings for several months.
When deputies arrived, they found skeletal remains consistent with what that teenage boy told dispatchers.
Authorities also said they found all three boys in the apartment, the teenager and his two brothers. They appeared to have been abandoned inside.
Late Sunday night, the sheriff's office said the mother of the children and her boyfriend had been found and were being interviewed by law enforcement.
The children showed signs of malnourishment and were taken to the hospital to be treated.
During a news briefing Sunday afternoon, Gonzalez called the situation "horrific" after he saw how the children, ages 15, 10 and 7 had been living.
"I have been in this business a long time, and never saw anything like this," Gonzalez said.
The eldest child appeared to have been the caretaker of the other kids for an extended period of time.