Kids abandoned in house of horrors with smell so bad cops expected 'dead body'

A mum allegedly abandoned her three who had lived for several years in a house full of faeces and rubbish.

Kelli Bryant, 34, is said to have left the kids in squalor where two girls, aged 12 and 13, would sleep on pizza boxes and the boy, aged 15, had difficulty walking as his toenails were so long at the property 25 miles north of Detroit, in. And Bryant just had the names listed in her phone as ‘My oldest’, ‘Kid 1’ and ‘Kid 2’ without giving any names. interviewed Bryant after the children were found in the shocking conditions, she reportedly admitted to acting selfishly and putting herself before her kids.

Police went to the property on Lydia Lane in Pontiac in a welfare check due to concern from the landlord as he hadn’t heard from Bryant and he reported the situation on February 14, this year. He had not received rent since last October and it was last December when he last spoke to her.

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What deputies found at the home was a case of “abandonment, neglect and abuse of the highest order,” Sheriff Mike Bouchard said after the visit, reported .

The boy is claimed to have told officers that the children had been on their own for four or five years and rubbish could be seen stacked up four feet high in places. There was also excrement through the house including in the bathtub and the toilet was overflowing.

It is understood that the kids had not gone to school for several years and spent their time watching television and playing video games. It is also alleged that Bryant had not seen her daughters for several years and her only contact was with her son.

In the squalor the girls were also said to sleep on pizza boxes while food was either delivered each week by Bryant or a “stranger” who would drop it off on the porch. And it is understood that some neighbours, when asked by police, said they didn’t even know kids lived there although they did see the food dropped off.

“‘I hurt my children,'” Det Brish said Bryant told him. “‘I sacrificed my children, probably.'” Testifying he also said: “She knew that her actions were selfish, that’s her wording and that it made her children sick and that she had ultimately sacrificed her children for her own purposes.”

Det Brish added: “I’d never smelled a home that smelled that bad without a decomposing body present.” Judge Cynthia Thomas Walker believed the prosecutors presented enough evidence for a trial on child and welfare fraud charges. “There is no question that this is an extraordinary case,” she reportedly said.