24-year-old Brittany Mugrauer was charged with two counts of child welfare endangerment.
Her children were discovered Thursday in a cave by deputy sheriffs investigating a possible auto parts "chop shop" outside Kansas City, according to the Jackson County prosecutor's off
The four-year-old child was using hands while eating a cup of dry ramen noodles with dirt, investigators said. The other child, six, told the detectives that he was supposed to enter first grade at school but he didn't.
The children were not wearing any shoes, saying that didn't have any. The investigators also didn't find any drinkable water in the cave.
@JacksonCountyMO prosecutors are asking for a $75k bond in Brittany Mugrauer's child neglect case. pic.twitter.com/lQ7A8YeR2W
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There were only vehicle bench seats, two small blankets, trash and thin wires in the crater, which was missing one side and surrounded by car parts, the probable cause statement said, as cited by AP.
"It's tunnels, it's dark, and there's tunnels in various configurations," a man, who identified himself as Tyrone, told KCTV5 News.
This is what one of the caves where Brittany Mugrauer left her two children alone in a shipping crate looks like. pic.twitter.com/9W21boVtFt
โ Andres Gutierrez (@AFGutierrez) September 12, 2015
Both told the detectives that their mother, Brittany, was living in a cave with them. However, she wasn't in the cave when the police found the children as she took her boyfriend Sean to hospital because he "smashed his finger," according to KCTV5 News.
Mugrauer acknowledged to the police that she left her children and that they were living in the cave for several days. The prosecutors set her bond at $75,000.
The children were taken to Children's Mercy Hospital where they were bathed and given clean clothes.
While the U.S. economy falters and millions are forced out of their homes by government approved banks, the U.S. authorities will arrest this woman who does not conform to expected living standards (the kids were dirty but unharmed) while U.S. authorities condone the slaughter, displacement and starvation of children across the ocean for geopolitical gain.
Why is this story even published? It is to place blame on the woman, a product of U.S. society and to keep the focus off the lack of education and social structure in the U.S., which is in itself a way to keep the public from rising up against agressive U.S. foreign policiy.