Eight children were found at a roach-infested home with no food, money or toilet paper, alone while their the mom of six of them went to Nigeria to marry a man she met on the internet . The youngest, a 1-year-old boy, was dehydrated, malnourished and lost consciousness as he was being treated by emergency workers.
All eight children are in foster care now and are doing well physically and emotionally.
The children are expected to remain in foster care until a Jan. 16 custody hearing.
Family members said that they've known about the mother's plans to travel to Nigeria to marry for about a year, but they didn't realize she had left and don't have any contact information.
"That was disgusting and deplorable," an officer with the Harris County Sheriff's Office said "The way they were living is not the way a dog should live."
She may have left thinking her children were in really good hands. She may have a really good explanation," a spokeswoman for Child Protective Services. said. "In this case, if it's a lack of judgment, if it's chaos happening in the home, the law really allows parents up to one year to fix the problem."
"There was no food in the home, and Mom didn't leave them any money," she said. "The 15-year-old said she had to steal food and diapers."
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