Overview
- Kelli Bryant, 34, entered the plea in Oakland County Sixth Circuit Court, where Judge Mary Ellen Brennan accepted a deal for probation and restitution.
- Sentencing on the welfare fraud counts is scheduled for Jan. 28, the same day a pretrial is set on three first-degree child abuse charges.
- The fraud case stems from a Michigan Department of Health and Human Services investigation into nearly $30,000 in improper benefits.
- Prosecutor Karen McDonald said resolving the fraud counts will not affect the ongoing child abuse prosecution.
- Deputies discovered the children, ages 12, 13 and 15, living in squalor in a Pontiac apartment after a landlord requested a welfare check.