Title: Mother charged with locking son in hot attic

" And disturbing story out of Lowell Massachusetts and mother accused of locking her five year old boy in hot and filthy attic. Anything and Sally Donnelly is just back from -- and joins us now from the newsroom with these details --"

" Well Karen prosecutors portrayed Kristen -- cat as an abusive mother who punished her child by locking him in an addict covered in his own -- Her family says she was an overwhelmed mother we know where to turn this afternoon she was arraigned on a number of child abuse charges in -- district court."

" On as the officers approached. Dependence apartment immediately struck by the strong pungent odor of god urine."

" And -- us in district attorney Dan Herron describes the scene at fifteen Lenox street in Lowell Massachusetts. Thursday police there received an anonymous tip. A five year old boy with special needs was in trouble his mother headlock and in the attic in the scorching heat."

" The officers found a completely naked child approximately five years old. Who's covered in PCs from -- to there was no furniture in the room in the rooms can be recovered pieces."

" Police arrested 27 year old Kristen -- cat and charged with assault and battery and reckless endangerment of a child. Police say the temperature in the room was over 100 degrees and the only window had been nailed shot we."

" He even know what physical and emotional trauma this child has suffered but we will we'll find out."

" three other children three and seven year old were home when police came to sit at that. Mommy does this when she gets angry and that the child who's upstairs had misbehaved the little Health Department has condemned pockets upstairs apartment according to police the arresting officer said the extension of human waste and rotting food on the floor was overwhelming Brasilia."

" Mattress and just -- The staircase that was covered in stains in as -- officers described that hundreds of lives my daughters and some evil monster. And I mean she's been betrayed me."

" Pockets father Alfred says he picked up his nine year old grandson from the apartment Thursday and neither saw nor smelled anything wrong. He said is unemployed daughter was overwhelmed by her four kids in particular the five year old who he says was born prematurely and has special needs."

" He's like a child would ADHD. On steroids he can't depend. Because it discipline a child. Because he's out of control. We've got to try to get some kind of controller is -- abuse. -- do what dilemma."

" I get is being held on 10000 dollars cash bail if convicted on all charges she faces up to fifteen years in prison Karen. Yelling at the department of children in families been involved with this family before. Well according to an open investigation they won't say whether or not they've had a problem with the family before they did say two of the kids are with relatives. And two are in their custody including the five year old. Now a neighbor and friend of pockets told us that -- had called DCF for help with her four kids. But she never got -- he -- did not return our phone call asking about that parents are I Sally Donnelly reporting from our newsroom thank you."