HOUSTON – A woman was arrested after she left her two children alone in a filthy northwest Houston apartment last week, according to court documents.
Harris County deputies were called to the apartment complex at the intersection Cypress Creek Parkway and Kuykendahl Road on Nov. 3.
According to court documents, maintenance workers at the complex were investigating a water leak in a unit directly below the apartment of 39-year-old Natalia Tyurkina. No one answered the door at Tyurkina’s apartment, so workers entered and found the bathtub was running and overflowing.
Workers also found Tyurkina’s 8-year-old and 2-year-old boys alone, according to the documents. The oldest boy was only wearing underwear, and the youngest was naked and drinking from a two-liter soda bottle.
According to the documents, the floors of the apartment were covered in food and trash, and the garbage cans were overflowing.
Deputies called Tyurkina, who showed up about two hours later, according to the documents.
Tyurkina was charged with abandoning a child.