Overview
- Deputies say the 12-year-old and two 9-year-olds were home alone in a Pontiac apartment lacking working plumbing, with rotten food, feces, and a cardboard box used as a toilet.
- Teriomas Tremice Johnson, 31, was arrested after returning from Ann Arbor and is charged with three counts of second-degree child abuse.
- At arraignment she was initially given a $250,000 cash bond before it was revoked after an alleged outburst, and she is being held without bond.
- Child Protective Services placed all three children with their biological fathers as the case proceeds toward a Nov. 25 probable-cause conference.
- Authorities report the children’s school attendance was sporadic and that Johnson is on probation for retail fraud, fleeing police, and a prior child-abuse-related offense.