Authorities are searching for a mother on the run for leaving her 12-year-old daughter and 3-year-old son home alone for two months.
Texas police were called to Raven Yates’s Roman Forest home after her daughter’s father became concerned. Police went to the home and found the two children living in deplorable conditions, with very little food, the Daily Mail reported.
‘No food in the house, everything was empty,’ Chief Stephen Carlisle said over the weekend of the kids’ conditions. ‘There were some dry beans and spices. That was it.’
“A 12-year-old cannot take care of a 3-year-old for a long period of time, especially over a month and a half,” Carlisle said. “It’s dangerous and irresponsible of a parent. Without medical supplies or ways to get food, that’s very dangerous.”
The girl’s father, a music producer who lives in California, told authorities his daughter would ask him to send food to the home and would tell him her mother was busy working. However, he grew more concerned after family members told him Yates was spotted alone in Mobile, Alabama.
It’s suspected that the mother left the children in late September. Authorities say the brother and sister had different fathers and believe she threatened her daughter by saying her father would take her and leave her 3-year-old brother alone if she told anyone.
Yates and her children moved to Texas nearly a year ago, but the children were never enrolled in school.
Authorities issued a warrant for Yates, who in 2018 was featured on Fox’s Fugitive Files for attempting to slash a repo man with a box cutter in December but say she is still on the run and may be in Mobile, where she is from, ABC 7 reported.
Weeks prior to Yates leaving her children, police say that the mom reported a third child, 14-year-old, had run away from the residence. Police said the child somehow was able to make it to their grandmother’s house. All of the children have been reported safe with family.
Yates is being charged with two counts of abandoning/ endangering a child without the intent to return.
