Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald has charged a 34-year-old mother in a Pontiac child neglect case where three children were found living in a Pontiac home in "deplorable shape" and allegedly abandoned by their mother nearly five years ago.

Kelli Bryant allegedly left food on the porch of her Pontiac home for her children after leaving them four years ago.

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.