The neighborhood in Fort Bend County, Texas, where Phillipi Angela Walker allegedly abandoned her child (KPRC).
A woman from Texas is facing accusations of abandoning her 8-year-old daughter, who reportedly has a disability, to travel to Central America, leaving the young girl to survive on her own.
Phillipi Angela Walker is alleged to have deserted her child on at least two separate occasions in November, as detailed in court records examined by Law&Crime.
According to a probable cause affidavit, Walker left her daughter unattended at home on November 21, 2025. During this time, Walker was reportedly “out of the country in Honduras,” and the affidavit states the child “called the police for food after being left home alone for two days.”
The affidavit further notes, “If the juvenile had not reached out to the Sheriff’s Office for food, she would not have been found for several more days.”
Investigators highlighted that the child “has a mental deficiency that may prevent her from being fully aware of her surroundings.”
Court documents do not identify the age of the girl or her mother, but local NBC affiliate KPRC, which spoke with law enforcement, reported that the girl was 8 years old at the time of the alleged abandonment.
KPRC also reported that one of the detectives on the case told the station that the girl had been surviving on birthday cake while she was home alone.
Days later, on Nov. 24, Walker’s house was under surveillance in connection with the Nov. 21 incident — and according to officials, Walker once again had left the girl at home, this time to go to her job at the Houston Veteran Affairs Hospital for a shift that ran from 3:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.
After being apprehended at a traffic stop, Walker allegedly told police that she had asked her grandfather “to go to her residence and make contact with” the child, according to the affidavit.
Walker “was then asked if there were any juveniles at the [home],” investigators wrote. However, Walker “would not be cooperative and did not provide an answer if there was anyone at the [home].”
Law enforcement officials say that upon entering the residence, they found the child in the home alone. They also say they discovered “three large knifes accessible to [the child] who with mental deficiency could access.” Deputies then took Walker into custody.
According to the affidavit, Walker was not supposed to have custody of the girl “due to a CPS plan having been set from the prior incident in which [the child] was supposed to be with another family member.”
Walker faces two charges of felony child abandonment or endangerment. The Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office does not currently list Walker as an inmate. Court records show that her next hearing is scheduled for June 29.