Pontiac mom jailed after having bond revoked for failing to appear for competency exam

Name: Pontiac mom charged with leaving kids in squalor, gets delay for competency
Uploaded: 2026-04-30T13:17:45-04:00
Description: The judge and prosecutor accused a Pontiac mom of delay tactics, before granting 90 more days leading to a May 27th hearing.

FOX 2 - The Pontiac woman accused of leaving her three children to live in squalor had her bond revoked on Thursday after a judge accused her of her delay tactics following a rescheduling of her trial.

Kelli Bryant appeared in court after voluntarily checking herself into a treatment facility only days before the latest hearing was scheduled to take place.

During her previous hearing, the judge warned the request for an exam appeared to be a tactic to avoid going to trial. On Thursday, she said her concerns were validated, and she had Bryant taken into custody.

Bryant had checked herself into treatment facility prior to the scheduled exam.

"I am respectfully revoking bond. You voluntarily tendered yourself three days prior to the competency evaluation you requested. Three days before the trial that you are entitled to. That the people are entitled," the judge said.

You can watch the full hearing in the player above.

The backstory:

Kelli Bryant is charged with three counts of first-degree child abuse after her children were abandoned in a Pontiac condo four or five years ago.

Bryant lived at another home and would occasionally drop food off at the home, authorities said.

Her pretrial conference is expected to start at 1:30 p.m. Watch the hearing in the live player above.

The children were found on Feb. 14, 2025 after the condo's landlord requested a welfare check.

Disturbing details:

Deputies arrived and found the home full of garbage – piled as high as four feet in some rooms. The rooms were also covered in mold and human waste. The toilet was overflowing, and the bathtub was full of feces.

The children survived on food that was dropped off on the front porch each week by either their mother or a stranger.

But they had no access to toilet paper or personal hygiene items. The sheriff said they were unfamiliar with personal hygiene and didn't even know how to flush a toilet.