As the investigation into the 34-year-old mother from Pontiac, Michigan who police say abandoned her three children continues, crews cleaned up the townhome that investigators say the children lived in for years.

The Pontiac, Michigan, mother who is accused of abandoning her three children to live in squalor for years was charged Wednesday with felony child abuse.

A 34-year-old Pontiac mother accused of child abuse and abandoning her three children was arraigned Thursday morning on three counts of first-degree child abuse.