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 The Ridgeland Police Department issued the following statement. 

Ridgeland officers were dispatched to the Sunchase Apartment complex on William Boulevard in Ridgeland at approximately 1:30am in reference to a flooding apartment.  Maintenance was contacted and they opened the apartment after no one would answer the door.  Officers encountered a male child, age 2, unclothed, wandering the apartment; a female child, age 2, was in a crib asleep, as well.  The bathtub was left running which had flooded the apartment and had also begun to seep through the ceiling of the apartment below.  

Multiple attempts to contact a responsible adult were made with negative results.  Officers took custody of the children and contacted Child Protective Services for assistance with finding proper care. 

The grandmother of the children was finally contacted and she made contact with the mother, Taylor Devone Sherman, age 31.  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 is held without bond at the Madison County Detention Center. 

The children are now safe in the custody of Child Protective Services at a foster home.