The mother of three abandoned children collected about $2,000 in government assistance a month for her children — including Kendrick Lee after his November 2020 death in a west Harris County apartment, according to prosecutors.
Prosecutors divulged the financial funds she received in court Friday while asking a judge to raise the bail for Gloria Williams, the mother of the children forced to live in the apartment with the decomposing body of their 8-year-old brother.
The assistance included funds for the children because of unspecified disabilities, Harris County District Attorney’s Office prosecutor Andrea Beall said. Funds intended for Kendrick continued after his death, she continued.
The jurist, Kelli Johnson of the 178th District Court, agreed to hold Williams on a $1 million bond for the injury to a child, causing serious bodily injury. The combined bail is now $1.55 million court records show.
Authorities have found no indication that Williams was holding a job in recent months.
Defense attorney Neal Davis III, appointed Monday to represent the mother, argued that a bail review hearing was not necessary so early in the criminal case and that she would be unable to pay most any bail amount.
He said the government checks that she had been receiving will have ceased. He has not been able to reach Williams’ family to determine if they can provide financial support for her bail, he said.
Williams and her boyfriend Brian Coulter have been charged in the child abuse investigation, with Coulter facing a murder charge in Kendrick’s death. The couple resided at an apartment separate from where the children were forced to live with their brother’s body.
Beall said the apartment was fully furnished, while the apartment at 3530 Green Crest was empty. Deputies on Oct. 24 discovered the three malnourished children living with the skeletal remains of their brother in the third-floor unit.
nicole.hensley@chron.com
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