MONDAY, MARCH 17, 2025 

PONTIAC, Mich. - Oakland County Prosecutor KAREN D. McDONALD filed a motion Friday in the 50th District Court to revoke Kelli Bryant's communications privileges for violating the court order directing her to have no contact with her children or their caregiver.

Jail records show that Bryant called the children's caregiver ten times between March 8 and March 12, 2025, to discuss her children and her criminal case. Bryant also had other inmates call the children's caregiver on her behalf.

Bryant is held in Oakland County Jail on $50,000 cash bond. She was charged with three counts of First-Degree Child Abuse and three counts of Welfare Fraud after her three children were discovered living alone in a refuse-filled Pontiac townhouse for several years.

"Kelli Bryant has clearly and repeatedly violated the judge's order not to contact the victims or their caregiver," said Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald. "That order is in place for an important reason - to protect the victims. The decision to ask that an inmate's communications be restricted isn't made lightly, but Bryant was repeatedly disobeying court orders and, by doing so, further endangering the victims."

If granted, the motion would prohibit Bryant from using telephone, tablet, and video communication devices while in jail.

Charges are accusations and individuals are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.

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