Warrants have been issued for a Wisconsin couple who failed to appear in court on Thursday to face charges of child abandonment after their two young children were found living “in a completely wild, unkept state” in a squalor-filled apartment in Waukesha.
Police were initially called to the scene on January 9 and found the two children, ages e2 and 4 a the time, screaming and crying and living alone with a grandmother who has mobility issues, WITI reported. The grandmother told police the children’s parents, Jessica Borkert, 31, and James Domoracki, 36, left the children with her two months earlier and did not return. She said she had difficulty with the stairs in the townhome and did not have a vehicle so could not get out to get food, supplies or medicine.
Court documents say the townhome was “a complete and total mess” and was “cluttered with toys, bags of garbage, clothes, and blankets.” The children were “covered in dirt, dust, and other unknown substances,” the documents say, and they slept on a bare mattress “with stains and cockroaches.”
The children were described as non-verbal and “in a completely wild, unkept state,” the document says. One boy had bruises, scratches, and dirt “all over him” with matted hair and the smell of urine.
Days after the children were discovered, a detective spoke with Borkert. She explained she had gotten work in the Grafton area and was staying at a motel in Oak Creek, which is further from Grafton than Waukesha. The documents said Borkert was “evasive” when asked how the couple was supporting the grandmother and the children in their absence. Domoracki reportedly told investigators he was try to send food and diapers “via Walmart shopping” but “ran out of money.”
The detectives reviewed the couple’s shared cell phen and found the “majority of text conversations” were indicative of “active participation in narcotics use and trade.”
The Waukesha County Freeman reported that Borkert and Domoracki were charged with two counts of child abandonment last month and ordered to appear in court Thursday. They didn’t, however, and now warrants have been issued for their arrest, WITI said.
