A Pontiac mother accused of abandoning her three kids in their home for several years could lose her ability to make phone calls from jail after allegedly communicating with her children.

Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald’s office asked a judge on Friday to revoke Kelli Bryant’s jailhouse communications privileges after she allegedly violated a court order prohibiting her from having contact with her children or their caregiver.

Bryant called her children’s caregiver ten times between March 8 and March 12 from the Oakland County jail to talk to her children about her criminal case, according to McDonald’s office.

Bryant also allegedly had other Oakland County jail inmates call the caregiver on her behalf, McDonald’s office said Monday.

The 34-year-old Pontiac woman is currently being held in Oakland County Jail on a $50,000 cash bond. She was charged with three counts of first-degree child abuse and three counts of welfare fraud after her three children were discovered living alone in a refuse-filled Pontiac townhouse for several years.

McDonald’s office is asking a 50th District Court judge to prohibit Bryant from using a telephone, tablet computer and other video communication devices from the county jail.

Bryant allegedly left her children for years in a home on the 600 block of Lydia Lane and they were surviving on weekly drop-offs of prepared food, according to the Oakland County sheriff’s office.

The children, a 15-year-old boy, and 12- and 13-year-old girls were found in soiled clothing, their hair was matted and their toenails were several inches long, making it hard for them to walk.

Police said the children did not know how to use personal hygiene items or how to flush a toilet.

Police said the 15-year-old said he and his sisters had been living alone in the home since 2020 or 2021 and they survived on the prepared food their mother or a stranger would leave on the front porch each week.

The mother did not leave toilet paper or personal hygiene items.

While she maintained contact with the boy, officials said it appears she had not seen the girls in years.

“Kelli Bryant has clearly and repeatedly violated the judge’s order not to contact the victims or their caregiver,” McDonald said in a statement. “That order is in place for an important reason — to protect the victims. The decision to ask that an inmate’s communications be restricted isn’t made lightly, but Bryant was repeatedly disobeying court orders and, by doing so, further endangering the victims.”