HOUSTON - A woman accused of leaving eight children with little food and no money while she traveled to Africa to marry a man she met on the Internet has been arrested.Shanell Monique Mosley, 33, was met by authorities as she got off a plane Monday. She was charged with child endangerment and child abandonment for leaving the children in squalid conditions. Her bail was set at $275,000. . . .
Prosecutor John Jordan said MosleyÂ’s six children, now in foster homes, were starving and her older children didnÂ’t know their own birth dates. MosleyÂ’s children are ages 1, 7, 8, 9, 15 and 16, Jordan said. The other two children found in the home were 3- and 4-year-olds the family cared for on behalf of a single father who worked, Jordan said.
The 9-year-old son told authorities he and the baby ate a still-frozen pizza for breakfast the morning they were discovered home alone. There were no diapers, baby food or formula for the infant, no sheets on beds and fruit was rotting in a basket, Jordan said. A Lone Star food card found in the home had no balance.
After the children were discovered alone in the home in early January, officials learned Mosley went to Nigeria to marry an Internet acquaintance.
Something phishy about that tale.
When she left for Nigeria on Dec. 31, Mosley told her 15-year-old daughter she would return in a month, child welfare officials said. . . .