Crime & Safety
Hungry Child, 5, Wandering Alone in Trailer Park Near I-275
Child Protective Services is investigating incident, where Canton police said they also found a malnourished dog with protruding ribcage.
CANTON, MI – Authorities from Michigan Child Protective Services are investigating after a 5-year-old who was seen wandering around a Canton mobile home park Saturday told police she was hungry and hadn’t eaten all day.
When authorities investigated at the home in the Sherwood Village mobile home park, they also found a dog so severely malnourished that its ribcage was protruding, according to The Canton Observer.
The mobile home, which is located in a park near Michigan Avenue and Haggerty Road and close to the busy Interstate 275 freeway, was filthy and smelled of smoke and dog urine, according to the report.
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Contributing to the delinquency of a minor have been filed against the girl’s 36-year-old uncle, in whose care the child had been placed while his sister, 30, the girl’s mother worked.
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When she came home, the girl’s mother told police that she struggles financially. The officer who investigated reportedly helped her buy food for her child and flea medicine for the dog.
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