Kids found living in crate in cave, mother arrested

A 24-year-old mother has been charged with child endangerment after her dirty, barefoot four- and six-year-old children were found living in a wooden shipping crate in an underground cave in Kansas City, Missouri. The four-year-old child was eating dry Ramen noodles from a cup that had dirt in it with the noodles.

Police arrested Mugrauer Friday and prosecutors have charged her with two counts of endangering the welfare of a child.

Mugrauer told investigators that her children had been living in the cave for several days and acknowledged leaving them there alone, the probable cause statement says.

Mugrauer is in jail.

This is what one of the caves where Brittany Mugrauer left her two children alone in a shipping crate looks like.

After being taken to the hospital for evaluation and to be cleaned up, detectives said the children told them their mother was Brittany, they didn’t know where she was, but know she had to take her boyfriend “Sean” to the hospital because he “smashed his finger”.

Numerous grottoes characteristic smooth roadways, essentials and produced enterprise house, and some, like that then the children have been found, includes soil slabs and unrestrained entrance ways. Two vehicle bench seats were inside, along with two small blankets and scattered trash and thin wires.

The older child was reportedly wearing nylon trousers that were inches too long. Dirt was also inside the cup.

According to prosecutors, the children were dirty, barefoot, and had inadequate clothing.

Police state that there arised another made of wood coop in the cave which actually stored scrap however no appropriate living camp.

The officers were down there investigating a possible chop shop, where stolen vehicles are dismantled so that the parts can be sold or used to fix other stolen vehicles.