Twentynine Palms, Calif. – A homeless couple was arrested after the woman’s three young children were punished by being sent into a California desert without shoes or water, authorities said Thursday.
The children — a 7-year-old girl and 6- and 5-year-old boys — did not require medical treatment Wednesday after a resident spotted them near a road and called 911, San Bernardino County sheriff’s spokeswoman Cynthia Bachman said.
Temperatures were in the low 90s at the time.
Deputies found the mother and her boyfriend a short distance away on the road near Twentynine Palms in the Mojave Desert about 130 miles east of Los Angeles.
Bachman estimated the children had been wandering about 45 minutes.
