What started as a missing-child call in Spring ended with a mom in handcuffs and investigators walking through what they describe as a house overrun by filth and decay.
Retrice Webb, a Spring mother, was arrested after deputies said her three children were found living among roaches, spoiled food, and decomposing animal carcasses inside their home. She is charged with two counts of child endangerment and one count of abandoning a child and is being held on an $11,000 bond. The children have been moved out of the house and are now staying with other family members. The conditions deputies reported inside the home have triggered a criminal investigation and referrals to child-protection authorities.
Precinct 4 deputies were called to the home on Shadow Valley Drive on Friday after Webb reported one of the children missing, according to KPRC Click2Houston. During the search, deputies said they discovered the other children and an interior so filthy it stopped them cold: spoiled food, animal waste, and decomposing carcasses, possibly from rats or mice, in common areas, and more spoiled food, animal feces, and insects inside the refrigerator, according to court records…