Mother left 8-year-old daughter to survive on birthday cake while she worked 9-hour shift and left the home for days

A Texas pistillate is accused of abandoning her 8-year-old girl — who is said to person a disablement — and traveling to Central America, leaving the miss to fend for herself.

Phillipi Angela Walker is accused of abandoning her kid connected astatine slightest 2 abstracted occasions successful November, according to tribunal documents reviewed by Law&Crime.

Walker, according to a probable origin affidavit, near her girl unsocial astatine location connected Nov. 21, 2025. The affidavit says that Walker "was retired of the state astatine Honduras" and that the kid "proceeded to telephone constabulary for nutrient aft being near location unsocial for 2 (2) days."

"If the juvenile had not made the telephone for nutrient to the Sheriff's Office, she would person not been discovered for much days," the affidavit adds.

The kid "has a intelligence deficiency that perchance bounds her to not being alert of her surroundings," investigators noted.

Court documents bash not place the property of the miss oregon her mother, but section NBC affiliate KPRC, which spoke with instrumentality enforcement, reported that the miss was 8 years aged astatine the clip of the alleged abandonment.

KPRC besides reported that 1 of the detectives connected the lawsuit told the presumption that the miss had been surviving connected day barroom portion she was location alone.

Days later, connected Nov. 24, Walker's location was nether surveillance successful transportation with the Nov. 21 incidental — and according to officials, Walker erstwhile again had near the miss astatine home, this clip to spell to her occupation astatine the Houston Veteran Affairs Hospital for a displacement that ran from 3:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.

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After being apprehended astatine a postulation stop, Walker allegedly told constabulary that she had asked her gramps "to spell to her residence and marque interaction with" the child, according to the affidavit.

Walker "was past asked if determination were immoderate juveniles astatine the [home]," investigators wrote. However, Walker "would not beryllium cooperative and did not supply an reply if determination was anyone astatine the [home]."

Law enforcement officials accidental that upon entering the residence, they recovered the kid successful the location alone. They besides accidental they discovered "three ample knifes accessible to [the child] who with intelligence deficiency could access." Deputies past took Walker into custody.

According to the affidavit, Walker was not expected to person custody of the miss "due to a CPS program having been acceptable from the anterior incidental successful which [the child] was expected to beryllium with different household member."

Walker faces 2 charges of felony kid abandonment oregon endangerment. The Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office does not presently database Walker arsenic an inmate. Court records amusement that her adjacent proceeding is scheduled for June 29.