RIDGELAND, Miss. (WJTV) – Ridgeland police announced a mother was arrested after she allegedly left her children unattended for several hours.

Ridgeland Police Chief Brian Myers said officers responded to Sunchase Apartments on William Boulevard after receiving a call about a flooded apartment. Maintenance opened the apartment after no one answered the door.

Once inside, officers said they found a two-year-old boy unclothed, wandering the apartment. They said a two-year-old girl was found asleep in a crib.

According to Myers, the bathtub was left running which had flooded the apartment and had also begun to seep through the ceiling of the apartment below. 

The police chief said multiple attempts to contact an adult were made without any response.  Officers took custody of the children and contacted Child Protective Services (CPS) for assistance.

Myers said the grandmother of the children was finally contacted. and she made contact with the mother, Taylor Devone Sherman, 31. He said the grandmother and Sherman arrived at the Ridgeland Police Department hours later, and Sherman admitted to leaving the children at home unattended for several hours.

Sherman was arrested and charged with two counts of child neglect-felony. She was booked into the Madison County Detention Center on October 19, 2025, and is being held without bond.

The children are in the custody of CPS at a foster home.