On Jan 30, 4:43Â pm, Ted
hotmail.com> wrote:> On Jan 30, 2:11Â pm, "Patriot Games"
America.com> wrote:
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>> Authorities Arrest Mom Who Left Kids Alone to Travel to Africa to Get
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>> Wednesday, January 30, 2008
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>> HOUSTON - Â A mother was behind bars on Wednesday after authorities say she
>> left her six children home alone while she traveled to Africa to marry a man
>> she met on the Internet.
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>> Shanell Monique Mosley, 33, was arrested at a Houston airport when she
>> returned, charged with child endangerment and child abandonment for leaving
>> the children in poor conditions. Two other children who are neighbors were
>> also at the home.
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>> Mosley made her first court appearance Wednesday. She has a $275,000 bail.
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>> Child welfare officials contacted Mosley to notify her that her children
>> were in CPS custody and she faced charges, but she hung up, said John
>> Jordan, a Harris County prosecutor.
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>> "It appears that she continued with her honeymoon while her kids had been in
>> CPS custody," Jordan said.
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>> Mosley claims her sister was supposed to watch the kids during her absence.
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>> "I didn't just leave my kids, if that's what you think," Mosley said. "This
>> trip was pre-planned for a year."
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>> Child welfare officials were reviewing the case while the children remained
>> in foster homes, said Estella Olguin, a spokeswoman for Child Protective
>> Services.
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>> Lt. John Legg, a spokesman for the Harris County Sheriff's Office, said they
>> found the home in poor condition.
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>> "We don't know what would have happened had we not responded," Legg said.
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>> Authorities found the children alone in the house in early January and
>> investigated Mosley's whereabouts, learning she had traveled to Nigeria.
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>> When she left for Nigeria on Dec. 31, Mosley told her 15-year-old daughter
>> she would return in a month, child welfare officials said.
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>> "I left money in my closet," Mosley said. "I gave one of my children three
>> ATM cards."
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>> Assistant Harris County District Attorney John Jordan said investigators
>> have learned Mosley's six children were starving and her older children
>> could not recall their own birth dates.
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>> Mosley's children are 1, 7, 8, 9, 15 and 16, Jordan said. The other two
>> children found in the home were 3- and 4-year-olds the family cared for on
>> behalf of a single father who worked, Jordan said.
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>> Mosley left a Lone Star food card, but officials said it had no monetary
>> balance.
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>> The 9-year-old son told authorities he and the baby ate a still-frozen pizza
>> for breakfast the morning they were discovered home alone. There were no
>> diapers, baby food or formula for the infant, no sheets on beds and fruit
>> was rotting in a basket, Jordan said.
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> I'll bet Ms. Mosley is a Democrat.
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I bet you take it in the ass.
