Woman 'abandons children for internet lover'
A woman accused of leaving eight children with little food and no money at home in Texas while she travelled 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 an Air France jet at George Bush Airport in Houston, a police spokesman said.
Mosley left for Nigeria on New Year’s Eve, leaving behind her children, aged one, seven, eight, nine, 15 and 16.
The other two children found in the home were a three and four-year-old the family cared for on behalf of a single father who worked, he said.
The children, who are now in foster homes, were starving and the older children could not remember their own birth dates.
The nine-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 nappies, baby food or formula for the infant, no sheets on the beds and fruit was rotting in a basket.
