An East Baltimore mother left six young children alone outside a rowhome with no food, electricity or beds, police said.
Teonna Brown, 34, lived with the children at the East Baltimore rental home, court records state.
A city cleanup worker spotted the children outside without adult supervision and called police, charging documents state.
The six children, ages 1, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 9, were found partly naked outside the residence, police said.
Younger children wore only socks and soiled diapers, officers reported. Others walked barefoot among trash and broken glass, police said.
The children appeared malnourished, according to police.
Neighbors brought them food, and officers watched the children eat rapidly with “apparent urgency,” court records state.
Inside the rowhome, officers found no electricity, food, drinking water or beds, police said.
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Dog feces lay across parts of the home, which had little furniture, too few clothes and shoes and no working air conditioning, charging documents state.
The city condemned the rowhome that day, records show.
All six children were evaluated at Johns Hopkins Pediatrics before being placed with relatives or Child Protective Services, according to records.
Brown allegedly told police she left for a methadone clinic appointment before the friend she expected to babysit had arrived. The mother acknowledged that she left without confirming he had entered the home to watch the children, documents state.
City housing officials had helped place the family inside the rental home about five months earlier, records show. Added oversight that should have followed did not happen, the mayor said, ordering inspections of other crisis-placement properties.
Brown faces six counts of child neglect, with each count carrying up to five years in prison if convicted, court records show.
A judge cited an open warrant along with a prior assault conviction and called Brown a threat to the public, records show.
On September 2, the judge denied bond, ordered Brown held without bail and barred her from having contact with the children.
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