As the investigation into the 34-year-old mother from Pontiac, Michigan who police say abandoned her three children continues, crews cleaned up the townhome that investigators say the children lived in for years.

Judge Ronda Fowlkes Gross of Pontiac's 50th District Court set Kelli Bryant's bond at $250 million and ordered her to have no contact with her kids.

Cleaning crews were on site at the home where three Pontiac kids were left abandoned and living in squalor for years.

A 34-year-old Pontiac mother accused of child abuse and abandoning her three children was arraigned Thursday morning on three counts of first-degree child abuse.

Three children were left to live alone in a Pontiac home for years after allegedly being abandoned by their mother, and during that time, only one child ever stepped outside.

Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard says the three children who were found living in a Pontiac home in "deplorable shape" were abandoned by their mother five years ago. Oakland County deputies received a call on Feb.

Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald has charged 34-year-old Kelli Bryant with three counts of first-degree child abuse in the Pontiac abandonment case.

A Michigan mother who allegedly abandoned her three children and forced them to live in squalor alone for four years is being detained on a $250 million cash bond — a massive amount more commonly seen in cases involving high profile or wealthy defendants.

A judge has set an extraordinary bond for a Michigan woman who is locked up and accused of leaving three children alone for years in a house full of trash and feces

Some of that support came from the Oakland County CARE House, a child advocacy center, where kids who have experienced abuse and trauma can have a safe place to talk about what happened.