They eat like animals. If y'all need to come live with people so y'all can stop assuming like that's annoying. Y'all saying it's no food. What the [ __ ] y'all expect? It's a lot of kids in the house. >> All right, bro. Let me see your back. Turn around for me. >> I don't think this kid has >> Oh my. >> This is nonsense, bro. I can't believe this. >> On January 8th, 2024, Myiramar police received an anonymous tip about two young children wandering around outside a home on Coral Boulevard in nothing but diapers. one covered in the other being from his hand. Officers responded right away, but none of them were ready for what was waiting for them inside that home. >> She said that uh >> for a minute she was in there sleeping. Mom left without telling her >> the child. >> So, who was walking back and forth? Him. >> There's two two. No. >> So, who's she on the phone with? >> Yeah. Papa. >> Mhm. >> Ma'am, just do me a favor. Go ahead and grab your ID from >> He doesn't Why is he >> Why I need to grab my ID report on this incident. Ma'am, >> why is he not this? >> It doesn't matter. You're the adult in this house. You're responsible for these. Whether your mother told you or not, >> she didn't tell me nothing. Doesn't matter. You're still the adult in this house with two kids running out in THE STREET. >> I NEED YOUR ID. >> I need your ID because I need to write up. That's what I'm doing right now. >> It doesn't matter. You're the adult in this house. YOU'RE >> I SHE DIDN'T TELL ME I WAS >> THAT'S NOT HOW THE LAW WORKS. >> GO AHEAD AND GRAB YOUR ID. >> GO AHEAD AND GRAB YOUR ID. >> GRAB MY ID BECAUSE I DIDN'T DO >> ME THEN. How about that? >> THAT'S NOT MY YOU CAN'T I CAN'T GO TO JAIL. HOW MUCH? >> YOU NEED TO grab your ID cuz you want >> How can I go to jail? >> You're an investigation. You have to grab your ID. >> How do you want to play it? How do you want to play this game right now? >> What the [ __ ] would I want to? >> The girl seen here was later identified as 21-year-old Malajan Louie, the toddler's older sister. She showed no concern for her siblings and no urgency to get them help. If anything, she was just irritated that the cops wanted her ID and least worried about the conditions of her siblings. It was clear she wasn't going to be of much help, but the cops needed answers and the one person who could give them was about to show up. >> Somebody coming in hot. You wait right there. Um, >> you the mother. >> No, we got to have >> this is this is uh >> this right here. >> LT cat here. >> Mr. Le something hot or something. >> Let me see. Come on. >> 54. Our identifier. >> Do you know what happened? Come on. >> She She doesn't want no parts of this. >> She almost just got arrested. >> Let your other person tell me. >> No, no, I'm not talking about the >> people. You did not tell them. >> Do you know what happened to the >> She knows WHAT HAPPENED. SHE KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED. I DON'T KNOW. I was not here when that happened. That's why I'm telling you to not to tell her. >> So, stop lying to the people like I know. It doesn't matter what you >> Mala's behavior said everything about how bad things really were. And it was why she kept pinning it all on her mother, 37year-old Anella Jeanlu, a mother of nine. But the three little ones at home were the cop's immediate concern. And what they'd find on those kids was far more concerning than a filthy house. >> Floor. Look at the wall. >> Just check out the other ones. >> Hi. >> What's your name? It's not like he's like he I need another diaper for him. It sound like smells like >> I just >> Yeah, he pooped. That's what That's him. >> Does he have chickens or something or something? 108. >> It's a little cool out. So, we're going to put a lot of stuff on him. >> He has ec asthma. >> He's got under his arm. >> He's got stuff under his arms. >> Kind of like scabs and sores and things like that sometimes on you so you can get nice and one way. We got to get it over your big old nugget. >> Yeah. I don't know if that's >> This is not it. Let me take pictures. This >> got a little too Hey, >> I don't think this asthma has freaking >> Yeah, he's got one on his leg, too. >> You probably got >> Yeah, I'm I'm send off his bottles. >> The three kids and their mother were taken to the hospital while a detective arrived at the house to officially investigate the conditions these kids were living in. And what she found inside was no place for anyone, let alone a family of seven kids. >> How's everything going? I need to speak with you for a few minutes if you could step outside. Do you have an ID on you? >> Yes, I have. >> Okay. Can you go get it for me? >> She's on the phone with someone. I don't know. >> Is your mom Angela? >> Anella. >> What? >> Anella. >> Your mom is >> Anella. >> Anella. That wasn't your mom that was here with >> another. >> Okay. >> How do you spell her name? >> A N E. >> So all the living in this house, >> who is the guy that's in >> this place at 95327? >> You don't know? >> She came at 9327. >> So there's random people that are just in the house. >> That's not a random person. That's probably somebody she know. I don't know who that is cuz I didn't see their face. I was in my room. >> Okay. So, who was responsible for watching the Today? >> I don't know. I was sleep. >> So, you don't normally watch any of your siblings? >> If she tell me, I was sleep, ma'am. I don't know. I was sleep. >> Okay. There's no reason to get defense if I'm asking. >> I just told you I was asleep. You ask me the same question. >> So, you were asleep today. So, you weren't aware that your mom left the other two here unattended. >> I was asleep. Yeah, I was asleep. >> All right. Do you know how the in the finger occurred? How the back on the finger and the foot? >> I was not here. >> You were here. >> Those things happen. I was not here. I got >> What about your other sibling that's got like a whole bunch of his back like healing scars and on his leg? >> He got >> No, these are lime. I mean, he's got a few little eczema things up in the bathroom. >> I don't know. I don't know. But cuz they play rough. That's all I can say. >> How does your mom usually discipline them when they mess up? >> She don't. She let them do whatever they want. That's why the house messed up. She let them terrorized. >> Do you you guys have any animals that live in this house? Okay. >> I have to ask this. What is that smell that's in the house? Because it smells like smells like like it smells like that and whole bunch like dirty trash. And I mean the house is a mess. The kids dirty up the house every day. Now if you live with them, you will know they dirt up the house every day. Whereas we clean up after them every day. They dirt up the house every day. They put juice on the floor before they left. They had juice on the floor everything before they left. They terrorized the house. If you live with them kids, then you'll know. They mess up everything. They don't They mess up everything. >> I also had seen that there's no food in the refrigerator. But >> there is food in the refrigerator. She got food in. She just went to go buy food last night and she got to go buy more. What? She got a lot of What? Y They eat like animals. >> I'm well aware of that. >> Like what y'all saying? There's no food. There's little food in that. She just got to buy more. They eat like animals. Y'all if y'all live if y'all need to come live with people so y'all can stop assuming like that's annoying. Y saying there's no food. What the y expect? It's a lot of kids in a house. Y'ALL EXPECT WHAT THE EXPECT? I'm not going to sit here and argue with you, >> okay? >> Cuz I'm going to tell you, you could have very little money and I'm sure your mom gets food stamps and other things else like that. >> Okay. And they eat like animals. They eat like animals. And you got to buy food every day. That's why she wouldn't want to argue with you. >> Okay then. Then we don't HAVE TO TALK AT ALL. SIMPLE AS THAT. >> OKAY. Then you can go back and ask. Mala wanted nothing to do with the situation. She even pinned it all on her young siblings as if the toddlers had brought this on themselves. But it was a whole different story at the hospital. Anella had stopped cooperating and clashed with officers, insisting she was being set up by her own daughter. According to the report, she fought officers in the hallway and even kicked them, after which she was placed under arrest and transported to the station. You took my hat off. >> Release your hands. >> I'm not doing nothing. Come on. I ain't going to do nothing. I ain't going to do nothing. with the police station or >> Yeah. >> I ain't for nothing seat belt. >> I don't need a seat belt. I'm good. >> I still got the seat belt on. >> I'm not aggressive. Let's >> got So you don't hit this. >> Okay. Get my bag. Put my for the mother. I can't believe officers could do that from the God. They want me to lose my what I did, Lord. [snorts] Hallelujah. Want [snorts] God. I'm innocent. I do nothing wrong. I love my God. I don't love me. I got when they come, they'll help me. I did on my own. I did on my own best I can. Got to go to jail. And I was trying to clean up with stuff to tighten up every day. Remember the last time you see me at Walmart? >> Mhm. >> Every time I went to the store, I was there last night. [snorts] Every time my daughter got a car, I had to call the Uber. [snorts] She don't like me cuz when I had my money today, something happened while I'm about to get my car. I've been set up. I know that's my responsibility, but I was not there. I thought she was going to um she know I left. I could have left with them. I got to look for my shoes that you know I have got what they need. They got earn what they want. I think I really deserve it. What I'm doing wrong? Whatever help they need. I try to get it myself. [snorts] Who helping me? But now I'm going to chit. That's not right. That's not true. But not you. Every time they try to be wrong, ain't nobody else. >> Oh my god. your um >> when I was I was in the hospital thing I had this morning drop my other school my other two kids came out but my daughter was home >> at the house and they trying to say I'm the one is my my reason that my daughter um my kid came out >> okay I went to his house so when I got to the hospital cuz my son had a right here >> okay And uh it can't this but you know it's open to close. You got to go on your own. >> Okay. >> So now when I get to the hospital she she talking she talking. She didn't say nothing. She said put hands around you and she the flooring. >> She on the floor. She my thing on me. She scratched me and I got back injury. >> You got scratched. >> Yeah. Look right here. Just scratch me up. Were you? >> No, I was not doing nothing. Did I? >> You should have took me out the room cuz I know I do nothing wrong. >> Okay. So, you went sick and me. >> I'm in pain and I eat all day and I'm dehydrated. >> Do you need fire rescue? >> Yeah, I'm in pain. I need some pain medicine. >> What? What do you What pain are you in? >> They was stepping on my back and my back my I had a rod in my back. >> So, they stepped on your back. >> Yeah. The one like this, the one step on my back and then I had to go outside flat outside so people in the hospital could see me talk. >> They closed the curtain. I had to slide outside and I told y Gabriel come. >> So they're like fire rescue for you. >> I was in the hospital. They didn't care. I was okay. They put on this hand. And you'll see how tight they put it. >> For a woman so worried about the marks from a pair of tight cuffs, she'd done nothing about the state her own kids were in. But the officers couldn't afford to sit with the irony. There were still four more children unaccounted for. Four kids who had been at school during the entire ordeal. The problem was they weren't at school anymore. The school had already released them to Mala despite being told explicitly not to. So officers turned the vehicles around and headed back to the same home they had just walked out of, this time with a DCF case worker beside them. All righty. Cool. You guys, this is uh this is my friend Mrs. Reed. Okay. She's going to holl at y'all for a little bit. I got to talk to Michaela. You guys talk. You guys step over here and I'll talk to Michaela. Let her know what's happening. I don't know what happened with your mom, but she flipped out from the hospital and she ended up fighting me and fighting the detective that showed up. >> Who? >> Your mom. >> She what? >> She decided she to fight me and the detective that showed up to to talk to her. And so she's at the police station now. So, at the very least, she's going to get charged with resisting since she decided to go berserk on us. Um, which is why DCF is grounding up. >> One by one, the officers examined each of the children back at the house. At first, the stories didn't add up. The kids were too scared to speak against their own mother, even to the people who had come to help them. But the evidence on them was saying what the kids couldn't say themselves. And soon, one by one, they stopped hiding what had been going on behind those walls. >> All right, bro. Let me see your back. Turn around for me. Pleas figure out how he got all these. >> Yeah. What all those from? >> Glenn. >> I don't know about that. You got these on you too? >> Yeah. >> Let me see. I don't I don't believe you. >> I I do got >> Come here. I do got bumps. I don't got much. >> Let me see what you got going on, man. >> You know you got a bump here. >> Let me see what you got going on. What is all that? >> I don't know. >> Hold on one second. >> Eczema. >> Oh, eczema. All right. Hold on one second. Let me get a Let me get uh big man. >> Is it going to rain? >> Yeah, it's starting to rain. Let's try to do this real quick. >> Big man, >> what happened to your head? >> How? From what? >> I got into >> Yeah. You said the TV by who? >> No, I just tripped in a table and then I >> whole store right there. >> Good lie. >> No. >> Good lie. True. >> What happened to your eye? >> That is a good lie. I got >> I I got I got hit in on the oven. It makes No, that's not >> Hold on. So what So tell me what happened to your face. >> A dog. That's >> Hold on. Hold on. Tell me the truth. What happened? >> A dog me right here. >> Okay. And what happened to your eye? >> Good. Good truth. >> And I like in the oven with this >> in the oven. >> Yeah. >> How? Don't move. Don't move. Don't move. Stay right there. >> I accidentally I accidentally myself went in the oven with my eye. >> But how you got that bump? >> Yeah. How'd you get the bump? You said you into a TV. No. Yeah. I got someone into the table. >> What's that? >> How'd you get that? >> Somebody. >> Oh, my bad. Hold on. >> Somebody. >> But who? But did any you go to the hospital for that? >> Not yet. >> Harlo or eczema? But those are these are the are too. Yeah. Bumps. >> Move. Move your hand. Um, Michael, thanks. >> He got back here, too. >> A lot of asthma. >> Do you put cream on this? >> Yeah. >> You see how they leg this one starting to hurt? Where? >> Yeah. >> Back. >> Oh, let me get there. At least >> Did you go to the hospital for any of these that you have on you? >> He did go. He did go. >> Look, he said the back of his legs are >> I didn't go for his take because then >> this is nonsense, bro. >> [ __ ] out of her car. >> I can't believe this. Let me take a picture of your face real quick. Okay. >> I don't know what you talking about. >> All right, turn your head this way for me. >> What? What do you mean your sister? >> Let me see. Let me take my cousin. >> Let me see this side. You got >> All right. Hold your shirt up for me, young man. Oh my god. How old are you, bro? >> Two. >> He's going to lift your shirt up over your head. Okay. >> Lift up your hands. We're going to We're going to take it off for a second. Okay. >> All right. You good? >> Holy. What's >> How'd you get all this stuff on? >> She keep you. >> Yeah. And that's what happened to you? >> The officers had seen enough. Between the physical evidence and the kid's own words, it was clear these children hadn't been cared for the way they should have been. And the most shocking part was that this was far from Anella's first rodeo as she had already been investigated 20 times by DCF with two cases still open. Back at the station, she was busy creating even more drama. >> Here's the issue we have. >> That's my bra. >> You taking your bra and you putting stuff [clears throat] around your neck. That's a problem. No. No. We don't want you to do that. Okay. So, do me a favor. I want you to comply with me. Do you understand? >> Yeah. Let me sit down. >> Okay. I'm let you sit down. >> I need you to comply with me on you. Huh? I'mma put in the back. Okay. >> In the front. I'm put in the back. I understand it, but if [clears throat] you would do what you're supposed to, it wouldn't happen. So, do me a favor. Do me a favor because I need listen. >> Do me a favor. I understand you. I want to be here, but there's a process. So, this is what you're going to do. I need you to stand up for me. >> I need you to stand up for me. Okay. Say that. Anybody did anything to you, I'm explaining to you. I need you to stand up. Please stand up. >> Okay. Now, put your other hand behind your back. >> Put your other hand. It doesn't work. Put your >> We don't I understand that. But if you would stop doing what you're supposed to do, then you won't have to worry about being >> Do me a favor. Put your hand behind your back. >> I know. Wait. Wait. That's it. Put your hand behind your back. >> It's going to hurt. You put your hand on your back. >> Too hard. >> Put your hand behind your back and talk to the detective. >> No. >> The detective left already. >> Already do that. >> What you mean? She gone. What you mean? >> My charges. Can I see my charges? >> No. I already told you what your charges were. Seven counts of seven count. >> How you you ask the charges? THAT'S THE CHARGES. >> THAT'S WHERE THE charges are. >> She lied on the thing. Only two at my house and I was not even home. >> In the end, Anella Jean Louie was charged with seven counts each of and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, plus one count of resisting arrest without violence. All seven children, ages 1 through 10, were placed in the custody of DCFS.