More information is known about the two women arrested by College Station police on charges of endangering five children between the ages of five months and 11 years old.
According to CSPD arrest reports, the oldest of the children contacted an adult by Instagram Saturday night notifying him they were without adult supervision.
The officer described the apartment where the children were staying had “the foul odor of rot and uncleaninless”.
When the officer arrived, he saw four children and a baby sleeping on a “dirty, stained queen sized mattress”.
There were stacks of boxes, bags, and rotting food. In all rooms, there was trash and dirty dishes on every available surface.
The officer also reported seeing a large cooking knife on the kitchen floor and an open vodka bottle on the living room floor.
The women who were arrested, 25 year old Elizabeth Pineda and 25 year old Kassandra Gaona, share the apartment.
Gaona told the officer she regularly leaves her children with Pineda’s children for up to four hours at a time while she is at work…and she does not see it to be an issue.
Gaona told the officer that she, Pineda, and a third woman went to Calvert and they were “gone for no longer than an hour”. The officer believed the women were gone about two hours.
The officer determined Gaona was under the influence of alcohol. The officer said they did not detect the odor of alcohol on Pineda.
Both women were in jail Monday morning in lieu of $5,000 dollar bonds.
According to a CSPD news release, some of the children were released to responsible parties and others were placed in protective custody.
Original story:
Two women were arrested by College Station police on child abandonment charges.
25 year old Elizabeth Pineda and 25 year old Kassandra Gaona are accused of intentionally leaving five children from the ages of five months to 11 years old unattended for several hours Saturday night in a home that officers described was in unsafe and unsanitary conditions.
The CSPD news release did not go into detail the conditions the officers discovered when they found the children. The news release stated that the conditions exposed the children “to an unreasonable risk of harm.”
The news release did not indicate where the women were while the children were alone, the relationship between the women and the children, and whether the women live at the home where the children were found.
The news release stated some of the children were released to responsible parties, and some children were placed into protective custody by Child Protective Services.
No jail photos were available at this time this story was published.