A father has been charged with child neglect after his two toddlers were found malnourished and dehydrated in a squalid home . The children , aged two and three , were found abandoned in a crib at their home in Princeton , Minnesota , by their father Michael S. Gunderson , 32 . The mother , who had been out of state for two months , 'discovered the children weak and thin ' , police told The Star Tribune on Monday , with one child too weak to walk . The home was filthy with dog feces . Michael S. Gunderson , 32 , was charged with felony child neglect and felony drug possession after his two toddlers were found malnourished and dehydrated at his Minnesota home . The mother had been working in Utah for two months and said she discovered one of her desperate children trying to eat feces . Gunderson , of Baldwin Township , was also on charged Monday with felony drug possession after the home was discovered to be a marijuana 'grow house ' . He remains in the Sherburne County jail on $ 40,000 bail . The children were hospitalized at Fairview Hospital in Princeton on Friday and remained there on Monday . Gunderson has previously been convicted for drug possession and assault , .
Father Michael Gunderson arrested for child neglect and felony drug possession in Minnesota . The mother , who had been out of state working for two months , 'discovered the children weak and thin ' One desperate child was trying to eat dog feces at the home , the mother told police .