Mother arrested, children found living in ‘deplorable conditions’
A mother of three was arrested in Twentynine Palms Sunday for willful child cruelty after her children were found living in ‘deplorable conditions’.
At around 5:20 p.m. on Feb. 24, San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputies assigned to the Morongo Basin Station responded to a residence on the 2100 block of Monument Lane in Twentynine Palms for a welfare check.
When they arrived, they found an “overwhelming amount of animal feces and animal urine embedded on to the carpet, bedding, and clothing…[as well as] trash and rotten food throughout the residence”, according to a San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department news release. 29-year-old Kathryn Coronado lived there along with her three children, aged 1, 9 and 10.
The residence was determined to be an “unsuitable and unsafe environment”, and Children and Family Services workers were called to the home to take custody of the three children.
Coronado was arrested for willful cruelty to a child and booked into the West Valley Detention Center on $100,000 bail.
Anyone with information relating to this case is urged to contact the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department Morongo Basin Station at (760)366-4175. To issue an anonymous tip, call 1-888-78-CRIME or use the We-Tip online form located at WeTip.com.
