Texas mother allegedly abandoned her children in order to stay with a man in Alabama for seven weeks, according to police.
Police and U.S. Marshals launched an investigation into Raven Yates that resulted in her arrest at an apartment complex in Mobile on Wednesday, March 8.
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Yates is alleged to have left her daughter and son, aged 12 and 3, respectively, at her home in Houston from September 8, 2022, until both were discovered by the older child's father on November 14.
A release shared by the Roman Forest Police Department on Wednesday stated the children couldn't get food for a lot of that time.
It added: "The concerned father reported to the Roman Forest Police that his 12-year-old daughter has been home alone with her 3-year-old brother since September 28, 2022, much of the time without access to food or medical supplies.
"The father immediately flew in from California where he had been working at the time. The father had been informed that his child's mother had been seen in Mobile, Alabama, without her children and realized they were home alone because he had been asked by his daughter to send food regularly."
In the same release, a photo of Yates was shared where she can be seen smiling at the camera.