California Mom Leaves Children In House Filled With Maggots, Garbage To Go Get High
Jul 8, 2009 4 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Worthless screwup…
CYPRESS, Calif. — A local mother is accused of leaving her two children home alone in a house filled with maggots, knee-high trash and overflowing toilets while she smoked pot with a friend.
Alison Le Anne Ebert, 35, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of child neglect.
Cypress police Sgt. Tom Bruce said officers found Ebert’s 9- and 11-year-old daughters alone in the filthy house at 8582 La Homa St. in the city of Cypress earlier in the day. The children had apparently been alone in the house since 6 p.m. Monday.
Ebert later took a taxi cab to the police station and turned herself in. She also admitted to officers that she was in the wrong.
“I was at a dude’s house smoking weed,” she said, and “I’m addicted to meth, I’m lazy, I’m depressed, there is no excuse.”
City officials condemned the house after deeming it uninhabitable.
Police say bugs and maggots infested every area of living space and that frozen bugs were inside the refrigerator. The toilets were also overflowing with feces, according to police.
The two girls and a 5-year-old sibling who was staying with relatives were turned over to the county’s Child Protective Services.
Ebert was released on her own recognizance and is scheduled to appear at the West Justice Center on Aug. 2.
