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<br>BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. (AP) - A suburban Kansas City couple left their 12-year-old boy with cerebral palsy behind for weeks after they moved, returning only periodically to bring him food, according to court records.<br> <br>Janine Allen,  [https://momfuture.pageride.com/importance-of-my-mommy-in-our-life/ momfuture.pageride.com] 30, and Brendon Luke, 29, were each being held on $250,000 bond on charges of felony abuse or neglect of a child.<br> <br>Police learned the boy was left by himself in a Blue Springs home while they monitored him with an in-home video system from their new home a couple of miles away, according to court records.<br> <br>The mother allegedly told witnesses she did not want him to damage the walls of the families´ new home.<br><br>In a home-surveillance video later obtained by police, the boy says, "I want out. I don´t like this, mommy."<br> <br>A Children´s Division worker involved with the family since October the child was "increasingly violent" toward the family and believed he needed residential placement, but his mother hadn´t completed the required paperwork, according to court documents.<br><br>The worker was unaware the child had been abandoned, The Kansas City Star reports.<br> <br>Allen´s attorney P.J. O´Connor told McClatchy News there is more to the case than what is in the arrest affidavit.<br> <br>"I´ve just entered my appearance on the case and there is a lot more to the story than what´s been presented in the probable cause statement," O´Connor said in an email.<br><br>"Until I´ve viewed all the evidence I don´t want to comment any further."<br> <br>Luke does not have an attorney listed in court records.<br> <br>In early June, concerned residents told Blue Springs police the wheelchair-bound child had been left in the home for weeks, prompting the investigation.<br> <br>When a police officer went to the home, Allen told him through a doorbell camera that the boy was OK and she could see him on camera, according to court records.<br><br>Later, Allen explained to investigators that she and her husband monitored the boy with a two-way radio and camera that provides alerts of movements and noises inside the house, police said.<br> <br>She told the officers her son knew how to call 911 and her phone number in an emergency.<br> <br>A Children´s Mercy clinic told investigators the boy is "medically complex" and shouldn´t be left unsupervised, police said.<br><br>In September, the boy was at the clinic for a "suspicious" broken arm following an altercation with his mother, according to court documents. A school resource officer said the boy needs help using the bathroom and eating and also with mobility.<br> <br>Inside the home, investigators reported finding feces and it smelled of urine.<br><br>There was a telephone with no dial tone.<br> <br>The family´s new home was "extremely large in size" with a basement large enough for the boy and other children to have their own rooms, police said.<br> <br>According to police, video shows the child attempting for more than 20 minutes to get out of his locked room with a small piece of wire.<br><br>Another video shows Luke "throwing food on the floor" in the boy´s room before leaving the house within six minutes, police say.<br> <br>On June 11, Allen told investigators the boy was left in the home since Mother´s Day, which was May 10, according to court documents.<br>She said leaving her son in the house was the best option to protect her family from violence, police say.<br> <br>Jackson County Family Court obtained emergency custody of the boy. Luke took him to a residential facility in southern Missouri a day later, despite the custody order, police say.<br>