A Texas mother is wanted for abandoning her two young children in an unkempt home for six weeks and sending them meals remotely, according to authorities. <\/p>\n
Rayshawna Deanna Dowdell, 34, allegedly left her 11-year-old child to take care of her 6-year-old sister for over a month at their disheveled home in Katy without proper food, according to Harris County court documents obtained by The Post. <\/p>\n
A concerned woman reported to police in late March that the kids were staying with her after they confided in her at a neighborhood park that their mother had been gone for an \u201cextended\u201d period, according to a probable cause affidavit. <\/p>\n
Rayshawna Deanna Dowdell, 34, is wanted for allegedly abandoning her two young children in an unkempt home for over a month. <\/p>\n
Investigators learned the children were abandoned in the home between Feb 17 and March 30 \u2014 with the 11-year-old girl being tasked with caring for her younger sibling, including preparing her for school and finding food, court documents alleged. <\/p>\n
The alleged absentee mother continued to communicate with her children remotely, including sending meals through Uber Eats, according to a motion for sufficient bail.<\/p>\n
Text messages sent by the 11-year-old showed she expressed \u201cdistress, fear, lack of food, and inability to continue caring for her sibling,\u201d documents said. <\/p>\n
The home where the two girls had been fending for themselves was \u201ccluttered, unkempt, and lacked available food,\u201d police wrote, noting a back door to the property was also unlocked. <\/p>\n
Dowdell admitted to deputies that she was out of town for a funeral, though there was no digital evidence that she told her daughters when she\u2019d come back home, court documents charged. <\/p>\n
Dowdell\u2019s 11-year-old daughter was allegedly tasked with caring for her younger sibling, including preparing her for school and finding food. Facebook<\/p>\n
Dowdell admitted to deputies that she was out of town for a funeral, though there was no digital evidence that she told her daughters when she\u2019d come back home. Facebook<\/p>\n
Child Protective Services placed the two children with their aunt, but the arrangement crumbled when Dowdell allegedly got into a physical altercation with her children\u2019s new caregiver, documents added. <\/p>\n
She then allegedly snatched the youngsters and did not offer information about their whereabouts, and evaded welfare checks, the affidavit continued. <\/p>\n
The two girls were later found out of state in Ohio, investigators noted. <\/p>\n
As of Wednesday, Dowdell remains on the lam, court records show.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors have already set her bail at $50,000 on a felony charge of abandoning a child without the intention to return.<\/p>\n
The Harris County Sheriff\u2019s Office did not immediately respond to The Post\u2019s request for comment for more information on her possible whereabouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Texas mother is wanted for abandoning her two young children in an unkempt home for six weeks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2118,104020,27,29,28,734],"class_list":["post-282251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-child-abuse","tag-manhunts","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}