A mother in Louisiana allegedly left her children in a feces-covered apartment — with soiled diapers, a “bucket of urine” and other inhumane conditions — to fend for themselves while she went out to “pick up food” and meet up with a “friend” at 2 a.m., cops say.
Daionjanee Young, 25, of Lake Charles, is charged with four counts of child desertion and four counts of cruelty to juveniles after authorities discovered what she allegedly put her children through on Friday, according to the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office.
Related Coverage:
“At approximately 10:00 a.m. Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a welfare check at residence in an apartment complex on Winterhalter Street in Lake Charles after receiving a report of four children, under the age of 6, being unsupervised,” cops said in a press release .
“During the investigation, CPSO Special Victims Unit detectives arrived on scene and observed the apartment to be covered in feces with a bucket of urine inside,” CPSO officials alleged. “The children were observed to be soiled, with the youngest having a severe diaper rash.”…