US mom charged after kids found living in wooden crate in cave
Posted September 12, 2015 1:33 pm.
Last Updated September 12, 2015 1:36 pm.
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MISSOURI (NEWS 1130) – A 24-year-old mother is in custody after her dirty, barefoot four and six-year-old children were found living in a wooden shipping crate in an underground cave in Kansas City, Missouri.
The woman was charged Friday with two counts of felony child endangerment.
Jackson County detectives were serving a search warrant for a suspected stolen car operation in the caves on the city’s east side Thursday when they found the children, alone, in the 8-by-10-foot (2.4-by-3-meter) crate furnished with vehicle bench seats.
Prosecutors say the children were poorly clothed, barefoot and covered in dirt, and the younger one was eating from a cup of dry ramen noodles.
A spokesman for the Jackson County prosecutor’s office said Saturday he didn’t know if the woman has an attorney.