Law enforcement authorities found dog feces and garbage littering the floor of the Little Canada apartment. A 6-month-old boy was naked in his crib atop a urine-soaked mattress. An unattended pan was simmering on the stove in the kitchen.

The infant’s 2-year-old brother was only partially clothed and hungry, as was his 5-year-old brother. Noticeably absent was the children’s mother.

That scene is depicted in a Ramsey County criminal complaint filed Tuesday charging Stormie Marie Gysbers with felony-level child endangerment that could have caused harm or death as well as a gross-misdemeanor count of child neglect.

The 26-year-old’s sister told police she found the children alone when she went to their apartment last Friday evening after getting a call from her mother saying she was unable to reach the mother of three all day, according to the charges.

When the sister arrived at 5:20 p.m., she said, her 5-year-old nephew answered the door and told her that his mother had been gone since the morning.

The siblings were very hungry, the boy told her, adding that his mother hadn’t left them with anything to eat, according to the complaint.

His aunt noticed that the only food in the home at the time was dry noodles and sauce. She also reported that there was nothing in the apartment for the 6-month-old, whom she said drank four bottles of formula that she subsequently gave him, charges say.

Deputies who responded to the scene found three dirty mattresses on a floor in the oldest child’s room. One of them had dog feces on it, the complaint said.

Trash and feces found elsewhere “all over the apartment” led the officers to deem it “unfit for human habitation,” authorities say.

Witnesses reportedly told law enforcement that the children “often wander the halls” of the building “begging for food” from other tenants, the complaint said. They said their mother “has a history” of leaving them by themselves.

Gysber’s boyfriend briefly showed up at the unit while the children’s aunt was there and said “it looks like Stormie left the kids alone again all day” before turning around and leaving, according to the complaint.

He later told law enforcement that he sometimes stays at the residence and that he takes care of Gybser’s children “fairly often,” according to the complaint.

He said he checked on the children at some point on the day law enforcement was called to the scene, authorities say.

Gysbers was eventually located at her boyfriend’s mother’s residence and arrested, the complaint said. Related Articles Two men face felony charges in Bloomington home invasion

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She reportedly refused an interview with law enforcement.

She made her first court appearance on Tuesday. No attorney was listed for her in court records.

Gysbers has no other felonies on her criminal record in Minnesota.