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.

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.

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

Kelli Bryant's children — a 15-year-old boy, a 13-year-old girl and a 12-year-old girl — were found living in a "biohazard," police said.

A father himself, Jamarr Johnson, told us that he felt the need to share that he heard the three kids abandoned in squalor in a Pontiac home.

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.

Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald announces Child Abuse in the 1st degree against Kelli Bryant in the case of three children who were allegedly abandoned for years at a home in Pontiac.