Sheriff: Pontiac mother jailed after 3 kids were found living in filth-ridden apartment with broken plumbing

A Pontiac lady whose three youngsters stay in an residence “in deplorable situation” has been charged with second-degree little one abuse, officers mentioned.

Teriomas Tremice Johnson, 31, is within the Oakland County Jail with no bond on the three little one molestation costs — every punishable by as much as 10 years in jail.

Based on the Oakland County Sheriff’s Workplace, officers who responded to a South Francis Road residence final Friday for a doable housebreaking — decided to be unfounded — discovered the scene plagued by human and animal feces, trash and spoiled meals. The residence has no working plumbing and clogged sinks, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned, and it seems the youngsters — a 12-year-old lady, a 9-year-old lady and a 9-year-old boy — had defecated in a cardboard field. Additionally it is believed that Johnson usually left the youngsters house alone, and so they attended college solely sporadically, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.

Three cats additionally lived within the residence, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.

Johnson was not house when officers arrived on the residence however subsequently positioned in Ann Arbor. The youngsters reportedly mentioned they’d not seen her since the day prior to this, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.

After being contacted by deputies, three hours handed earlier than Johnson returned house, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned. She was subsequently taken into custody as a result of situation of the home and kids.

“It’s past comprehension how dad and mom blessed with the present of a kid may show such cruelty,” mentioned Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard. “The whole lack of compassion and humanity is heartbreaking, and I need justice to be served for this unconscionable act.”

At Johnson’s arraignment Wednesday within the fiftieth District Court docket through Zoom, Justice of the Peace Angelena Thomas-Scruggs initially set bond at $250,000. The Justice of the Peace revoked bond after Johnson threw a chair and yelled an expletive at her, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned. Johnson is due again in court docket on November 25 for a possible trigger convention.

Baby Protecting Companies positioned the youngsters with their organic father, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.

The allegations in opposition to Johnson echo a case in opposition to one other Pontiac lady, Kelli Marie Bryant, who was charged earlier this 12 months with little one abuse for leaving her three youngsters alone for years in what officers referred to as “absolute distress” — surviving on Bryant’s weekly meals drop-off. She has been launched after posting bail and is awaiting trial in Oakland County Circuit Court docket. Her subsequent court docket look is scheduled for December 1.

Johnson is on probation for first-degree retail fraud, fourth-degree fleeing and eluding, and fourth-degree little one abuse in 52-3 District Court docket in Rochester Hills, starting in 2024. Two of her youngsters have been within the automobile when she fled from police, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.