Brenda Canil Larion has been arrested and charged with child abandonment after allegedly leaving her three-year-old child unattended in a Houston hotel room.

The mother accused of leaving her two young children home alone for several weeks in Montgomery County while she was in a different state has been arrested, according to the Roman Forest Police Department.

A mother is wanted after police say she left her two young children home alone for several weeks while she was in a different state.

The family of Brian Coulture, the man accused of killing his girlfriend's 8-year-old child and severely abusing her other children, sent KPRC 2 a statement expressing sympathy for what has happened. The family says the man at the center of the horrific case is not the person they raised.