A judge set a $250 million bond Thursday for a Michigan woman who is accused of leaving three children alone for years in a house where conditions were so offensive that police evidence technicians wore hazmat suits.

PONTIAC, MI -- The woman accused of abandoning her three children for several years at a Pontiac townhouse had her bond set at $250 million cash Thursday. Judge Ronda M. Fowlkes Gross levied the staggering bond during the arraignment of Kelli Bryant, 34.

Police discovered a boy and two girls abandoned by their mother and living in squalor for at least five years in southeastern Michigan while conducting a welfare check during the past weekend.