KATY, Texas (KTRK) -- A Katy mother is facing charges of abandoning a child after police found her children home alone.
Melissa Gomez, 30, is accused of leaving her 1-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son, who has autism, alone at their apartment.
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Court documents state that a neighbor found the 4-year-old, who is nonverbal, bleeding from his face and locked out of the family's home on Monday.
Police were called, and when officers arrived they could see a toddler lying on the floor inside the home. She was unresponsive.
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Gomez told police she left the kids in order to pick up money that someone owed her.
Both children are now in CPS custody.
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