As the investigation into the 34-year-old mother from Pontiac, Michigan who police say abandoned her three children continues, crews cleaned up the townhome that investigators say the children lived in for years.

Cleaning crews were on site at the home where three Pontiac kids were left abandoned and living in squalor for years.

The father of the three children who were allegedly abandoned by their mother for nearly five years attempted to be in their lives, according to police. During a press conference Tuesday, Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said that while an investigation into the timeline is ongoing,