A MAN filed a police complaint against his wife for allegedly abandoning their three children, including a two-month-old baby, at their house in Susupe on Wednesday night.
Mohammed Mokbul Hossuin, 28, told the police that it was not the first time his 22-year-old wife, Delora Taman, left their children in the apartment. He said his wife likes to play poker.
According to Hossuin, he left home and went to work at San Antonio Poker at 7 a.m.
He said that at 11:30 a.m., Taman and their children went to see him.
Hossuin said he got off from work at 3 p.m. and waited for Taman to pick him up, but she never did.
He said he got a ride from a friend and went to Joeten Kiyu Public Library to use the Internet and read books.
At 6:30 p.m. Hossuin said he walked toward his apartment and found his two children, ages three and five, playing in front of the house.
When he went inside, Hossuin said he found the baby crying on the bed and his wife was nowhere around.
Hossuin said their oldest child told him that his wife left since that morning to pick him up at work.
The complainant said his wife was previously scheduled to meet with Division of Youth Services agents for counseling, but she refused to talk to them when they came to their apartment.
Last December, two federal agents arrested Taman for playing poker while leaving her two children unattended at their apartment.
According to the police, the two federal officers went to an apartment complex to serve a subpoena to a man for non-court appearance.
A four-year-old girl opened the door. The officers learned that the girl and her two-year-old sister were unattended.
The officers brought the children to a laundromat where they identified their mother, who was playing poker.
Their father, Hossuin, was working at the time, police learned.
