A PREGNANT mum has been arrested after police found two severely injured toddlers chained up in her back garden and another SIX children abandoned in the house.
Porucha Phillips, 34, was charged after concerned neighbours called cops at 11.45pm on Thursday night in San Antonio, Texas, US.
Police have received reports a child would not stop crying.
Officers arrived to find the grim scene of the two-year-old boy and three-year-old girl suffering from a fractured arm tired up in the back garden by a chain and dog leash.
The boy had a chain tied around one ankle and the other end secured to the ground.
The girl was secured to the frame of the back door by a leash.
Police forced their way into the house where they discovered six more children left without an adult at home.
They are all believed to be Phillips children and are aged between ten months and ten-years-old.
“To call this horrific is an understatement; this is as disturbing as it comes. Everybody is bothered by this. It motivates you to fight harder to make sure this is taken care of.”
The toddlers found in the garden are not thought to be Phillips. Detectives are hunting their parents.
Phillips and another adult, believed to be the dad of the six children, returned to the property in the early hours of Friday morning where they were arrested.
She was charged with child abandonment and injury offences with more expected to follow.
Phillips is claiming she never restrained the two children in her back garden, and they were dumped there by their parents, according to investigators.
The girl found in the garden was rushed to hospital where she was placed into intensive care, suffering from a fractured arm and wrist.
All eight children have now been placed into protective custody.
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