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Porucha Denise Phillips
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A pregnant Texas woman was arrested after police found two toddlers chained and leashed outside the woman’s San Antonio home.
According to San-Antonio Express News, Porucha Denise Phillips, 34, the pregnant mother of six children, was arrested and charged with two felony charges on two counts of injury to a child by omission after a neighbor called and reported hearing screaming coming from the woman’s backyard. When police arrived they reportedly found 3-year-old girl who was found tied to a door with a leash and a 2-year-old boy who was chained up in the back yard.
All eight children were taken into custody; the two children, who are not believed to be Phillips biological children, were found outside the home were taken to a local hospital.
“Both of them were dehydrated, had old bruises and new bruises, several scratches,” Bexar County Sheriff’s Office spokesman James Keith told the Express News Saturday. “The little girl had what appeared to be a fractured arm and injuries to her foot.”
Child Protective Services spokeswoman Mary Walker to the newspaper that the two children found outside the home were recovering in the hospital while the other six children, aged 10 months to 13 years old, found in the home, will remain in CPS custody.
“We’re doing whatever we need to do so that they’re taken care of,” Walker said.
Read more at the San-Antonio Express News.
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