judge Wednesday set bail at $275,000 for a mother accused of abandoning her children to go to Nigeria to marry a man she’d never met in person.
Shanell Monique Mosley began crying and her knees buckled in court as prosecutors read details of the roach-infested home and the physical condition her six children were found in days after she boarded a plane for to meet and marry a man she had been talking to for more than a year online.
Mosley, 33, is charged with child endangerment and abandonment.
Defense attorney Emily DeToto said Mosley felt betrayed by her sister who promised to come to Houston to look after the children. Mosley’s sister never made the trip from New Orleans, because she couldn’t afford it, investigators said.
DeToto also said Mosley left a freezer full of food, three ATM cards with money on them and a car filed with gas. The trip, DeToto said, had been planned for a month beforehand.
“She loves her children,” DeToto said. “She just wants to see them again.”
Prosecutors told a different story in court.
Assistant Harris County District Attorney John Jordan said investigators have learned that Mosley’s children, now in foster homes, were hungry and thirsty and some didn’t know their own birthdates.
When she left for Nigeria on Dec. 31, Mosley told her 15-year-old daughter she would return in 30 to 60 days to their home in the 11000 block of Barker Grove Lane.
Mosley’s children are 1, 7, 8, 9, 15 and 16, Jordan said. Investigators also found two other children in the home — a 3-year-old and a 4-year-old the family cared for on behalf of a single father who worked, Jordan said.
No charges are pending against the father who may have thought he was just dropping his children with the baby sitter, Jordan said.
Officials found a Lone Star food card, but it had a zero balance.
The 9-year-old son told authorities that he and the baby ate a still-frozen pizza for breakfast the morning they were discovered home alone.
Bohot hi bawakuf aurat hoghi, jo apni bachonki saath aisai suluv kiya hai.
Admi to lakhon miljayainghai zindagi mai, bachain wapis nahi miltain.
Aur koi bhi aadmi is layiq nahi hai, jis kai liyai apnai (jigar kai tukron ko) bachonko chorajai.:(
Seedhi si baat hy itny bachy pyda kerna band ker do. Ortin samjhti hain ky in ky bachy in ki azdwaji zindagi ki dwam or baqa hain bilkul ghalat sochti hain. Bachon per bachy bachon per bachy paida ker ky. Jab shohar chor jaty hain mazi main sanmbhalti phirti thin ab mashAAllah oraton main bhi mardangi pyda hoti ja rahi hy tu woh bhi bachon ko chorny lagi hain. Any way mera khiyal hy ainda bachon ki bhlaai ky liy tamam hukumatin order pass karin ky shadi ky 5 sal baad bacha pyda karo ta ky 7 ya 8 sal baad sepration hu tu aik adhi zindagi hi muttasir ho 6 nahi:chai: PS: waisy do bachy umar 16 or 15 sal tu dykh bhal ker sakty thy apny bhai behnon ki. Lagta hy ju yeh bhook or piyas wali halat ki hy onhon ny “maan” sy intiqam lyny ky liy ky os ny shadi ka socha bhi kaise kion tillo:hmmm:
Maybe the Nigeria man made her an email offer that she couldn't refused?
Shanell Monique Mosley, I am son of the late KING PUHSPUG. Due to a military coup I have been thrown in prison and the only way to transfer my fathers millions out of the country is for me to marry and place it under my new wifes name. Shanell, I have choosen you as my wife. D*rop everything you have and come quickly to be my wife and weath bearer. *
Yours Truely, KING PUHSPUG.
p.s. I phoned a babysitter, your kids will be fine.
she must’ve been bigtime mentally unstable to do something like that to her baby.
