A Southern
California mother and her boyfriend were arrested Wednesday after left three
young children alone in the desert without water as temperatures nearly reached
100 degrees, officials said.
According to
the Desert Sun, San Bernardino County Sheriff’s
Department said a 7-year-old girl and two boys ages 6 and 5 were discovered in
the desert in Twentynine Palms at around 11:20 a.m. Sheriff’s spokeswoman
Cynthia Bachman said the parents were located just “down the road from the
children.”
The children
had been in the desert for about 45 minutes before a resident alerted authorities.
The temperatures at that time were between 95 and 100 degrees. Temperatures
would reach 104 during the day, meteorologist Todd Lericos told the paper.
Officials
haven’t determine why they were being punished. The kids didn’t need medical
treatment when they were found.
Bachman
described the family as “local transients” and that the children had been
living in a car with their mother, 34-year-old Mary Bell, and her boyfriend,
29-year-old Gary Cassle.
The pair was
arrested on suspicion of child abuse and are being held at the Morongo Basin
Jail in lieu of $100,000 bail. It’s unclear whether family services took
custody of the children.
Source: .Foxnews.
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