Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard says the three children who were found living in a Pontiac home in "deplorable shape" were abandoned by their mother five years ago. Oakland County deputies received a call on Feb.

A mother faces charges after investigators say she left her three kids to live by themselves in a Michigan home for years.

The sheriff said the abandonment appears to have taken place in the spring/summer of 2020, right as the COVID-19 pandemic was in its early stages.

Donations of clothes and money are pouring in for three children who were “basically abandoned” by their mother for years, living alone in a suburban Detroit home among trash and feces, a sheriff said Tuesday.

The office previously asked for clothing donations after the children were allegedly abandoned by their mother.

PONTIAC, Mich. — Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard says the three children who were found living in a Pontiac home in "deplorable shape" were abandoned by their mother five years ago.

Police discovered a boy and two girls abandoned by their mother and living in squalor for at least five years in southeastern Michigan while conducting a welfare check during the past weekend.

Sheriff Michael Bouchard says all the money will go to the kids, but the department needs to establish a trust so the money can be handled properly.