The siblings and skeletal remains were found at 3535 Green Crest, near Addicks Clodine & Westpark Tollway, in Houston, Texas, around 4.30 pm on Sunday, after responding to a request for a welfare check that was made by eldest child.

Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzales said the three brothers were living without adult supervision for months in deplorable conditions and that the body of the dead child was on full display.

In an update late Sunday, Gonzalez revealed that the children's mother and her boyfriend have been located and were being interviewed by homicide detectives. As of Monday morning, no arrests or charges have been announced.

While there were no indications that the children were locked in the house, they had seemingly been abandoned by adults and were 'fending for each other.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10127021/Three-children-abandoned-inside-Houston-apartment-skeleton-sibling.html

in a sane country this would be the top story on every news channel and we would be discussing how we failed those kids for a week

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The 911 call on Sunday led to a series of disturbing revelations, including that the three children, ages 15, 10 and 7, had been left to fend for themselves for several months, relying on food donations from unsuspecting neighbors to survive, while sharing an apartment with the decomposing remains of their sibling, even as their mother and her boyfriend lived just 15 minute away.

Erica Chapman, who lives at CityParc II at West Oaks Apartments, said she was among the people who had been feeding the malnourished 15-year-old, not knowing he was living with his two younger brothers.

'The first time I saw him, he was sleeping on one of the slides,' Chapman told KTRK.

Chapman said she noticed that the teen's mother was rarely home. She would occasionally show up bearing noodle, snacks and drinks, and her son would run downstairs to pick up the food and then return to the apartment.

About six months ago, Chapman said she started offering the 15-year-old food, but she said he refused to accept cooked meals, only agreeing to take packaged snacks, fruit and pizza.

Trevor Thompson, another neighbor who had been helping out the boy, told the station the child was paranoid and feared of being poisoned.

Thompson said the teen knocked on his door one day, asking to borrow a charger. After that, the neighbor said he forged a bond with the boy and started offering him food.

Both Thompson and Chapman said they had no idea there were two younger children living with the 15-year-old.

Thompson recalled that on one occasion he asked the teen if he liked the pizza he had given him.

'And he asked, "What? The first pizza we had?"' Thompson recounted. 'That made me wonder why would he say, "We."'

Chapman speculated that the teen may have concealed the existence of his brothers because he was afraid of being blamed, punished by his mother, or separated from his siblings.

The neighbors said they never called the authorities because they did not grasp the severity of the situation involving the teen, who was described as quiet and discreet.

'I didn't want to push him away by asking questions because I knew he was starving and needed food,' Chapman said.

Alief Independent School District told KTRK that in 2019 and 2020, the school district filed truancy papers against the siblings' mother because two of them were not attending school. The children were last enrolled in May 2020.

All three surviving siblings were taken to a hospital for treatment. They were said to be malnourished and injured, and the 7-year-old had broken bones in his face.

An autopsy is being conducted on the fourth child to determine a cause of death.

According to investigators, the 15-year-old said that the parents hadn’t been living at home for months, effectively abandoning the children to be on their own.

When police arrived to the home on Sunday afternoon, they found the brother’s skeletal remains out in the open, KPRC-TV reported.

The two younger boys appeared to be malnourished and ‘showed signs of physical injury,’ according to law enforcement officials.

‘It appears they were basically fending for each other,’ Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez told reporters.

‘The older sibling was doing the best he could to take care of the others.’

1. Single mothers are a disaster.

2. GUESS RACE (Developing) - I'm betting mud hispanic

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Stay home! Close the schools! Protect the children!

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Alief Independent School District told KTRK that in 2019 and 2020, the school district filed truancy papers against the siblings' mother because two of them, a boy and his sister, were not attending school. The children were last enrolled in May 2020.

Both charges were later dismissed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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in all seriousness though the parents were probably crackheads who scared them out of going outside and treated them horribly, jfc

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https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/10/27/15/49680735-10134535-Court_documents_obtained_by_DailyMail_com_indicate_that_Williams-m-14_1635344971771.jpg

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10134535/Mom-35-boyfriend-31-arrested-two-days-three-children-abandoned.html

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All macabre kidding aside, this is such a sad and sick story. :(

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