Fredrick Price came to the apartment complex on Sterlingshire looking for his two kids Thursday morning, both three years old. When Eyewitness News first talked to him, he had no idea they were among the children left alone in unit 115 Monday night. That's where 19-month-old J'Zyra Thompson died after being placed in an oven."I need to know where they are, I haven't heard from my children in months," said Price. " I've been trying to contact Racquel."Price is the ex-boyfriend of Racquel Thompson. Police believe she left her four kids, all under five years old, home alone Monday night. That's when little J'Zyra, seen on Thompson's Facebook page with big eyes and a bright smile, ended up in the oven. The toddler burned to death with three other kids in the home. She died without ever knowing a father."She was a cute little baby, I just didn't know if that was my daughter or not," said Price, who has never taken a paternity test relating to her ex-girlfriend's youngest child.Court records obtained by Eyewitness News show Child Protective Services are concerned with a number of issues relating to Thompson and her boyfriend. Records show Thompson told officials she often left the kids home alone to drive her boyfriend to work at a pizza place. Monday night, Thompson and her boyfriend left to go get Dominos Pizza for takeout, and stopped at Walgreens to pick up a prescription. Case workers say the couple left the four kids home alone without telling a grandmother who lived in the same apartment complex."It's very irresponsible, someone should have been here or I should have gotten a phone call, come and get my children." Price says his two children had been staying with Thompson because he lost his job a few months ago. He says he has since tried to contact Thompson on the phone and via Facebook, but she has not responded.Court records show prices two kids, just three years old, told investigators that one of them put the baby in the oven, and the other turned it on. Records show the children told CPS workers they made the oven "hot", and that the baby was kicking the oven door while inside. Records also show Thompson tried CPR when she got home. But it was too late, the child had multiple burns.CPS said no suitable relatives can care for the three surviving children from the home, so they are currently in foster care. Thompson also has an older child who lives with his father. In addition, she is seven months pregnant with her current boyfriend's child. Thompson apparently also drove the kids without a license nor car seats.Meanwhile, Price asked Eyewitness News about his two children. We told him they are in foster care, and he told us he will contact CPS to see if he can take custody of the children."I have to go get them. I have to go and get them," he said.No charges have yet been filed against Thompson or her boyfriend, though CPS workers said in their court filings that criminal charges are expected. ||||| HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston mother and her boyfriend have been charged in connection with the death of her 19-month-old daughter, who was severely burned inside an oven when she and her three young siblings were left home alone, police announced Tuesday. 
 
 Racqual Thompson and Cornell Malone have each been charged with four counts of endangering a child. Both remain jailed, each with bonds totaling $36,000, after their arrests Tuesday morning. 
 
 Court records didn't list attorneys for either Malone, 21, or Thompson, 25. 
 
 KTRK-TV reported last week that according to court records, J'zyra Thompson's two 3-year-old siblings told Child Protective Services that one of them put J'zyra inside the oven and that they made the oven "hot." 
 
 According to court records prosecutors filed Monday, Thompson told investigators that on the evening of Nov. 16, she had left her four children, including a 5-year-old, alone in their apartment for about 30 minutes to pick up Malone from work. 
 
 Later that night, Thompson and Malone again left the children alone after putting them to bed to go get some pizza and visit Malone's brother. The couple was gone for about two hours. 
 
 "Mr. Malone stated that when they returned and went into the apartment, he could 'smell something burning,'" according to a probable cause affidavit. 
 
 Thompson and Malone told police they found the three other children crying and pointing to the kitchen. In the kitchen, the oven had tipped over, with the oven's door face down on the floor, with J'zyra apparently inside, according to the affidavit. 
 
 Malone "stated he uprighted the 'range' and the next thing he noticed was J'zyra was lying on the floor. He stated that she was obviously burned and deceased," according to the affidavit. The oven had apparently been turned on "all the way." 
 
 CPS has declined to comment on the circumstances surrounding the girl's death as the court records it filed in the case have since been sealed by a judge. 
 
 The three other children who were living in the apartment have been taken into CPS custody, with the agency saying it was concerned the children were often left home alone and without adult supervision. 
 
 Police said Malone is not J'zyra's father. According to court records, Thompson is currently 8½ months pregnant. Both are set to make their initial court appearance before a trial judge on Monday. 
 
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 Charges of endangerment have been filed against a Houston couple after the woman's daughter apparently burned to death in an oven at a northeast Houston apartment. 
 
 Racqual Thompson, 25, and her boyfriend, Cornell Malone, 21, left her four children alone at the home the evening of Nov. 16, officials next. The couple arrived home after midnight to find Thompson's 19-month-old girl dead inside the oven, which had tipped over, apparently trapping the child inside. 
 
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 Thompson told authorities that she had twice left the children, the eldest 5 years old, unattended that evening, according to court documents. The first time was to pick up Malone from work. The second time was when she and Malone left for pizza, then to visit his brother. That trip took about two hours, according to the document. 
 
 When they returned home, she heard the children crying and pointing to the kitchen. The range was tipped over and lying on the side of the oven, Thompson told authorities. When Cornell uprighted the range, she saw her daughter, J'zyra Thompson, on the floor. The toddler was extremely burned, according to the document. 
 
 Child Protective Services was still working to determine how the child got in the oven. 
 
 The Houston Police Department said officers arrived to find the toddler beside the stove, dead with severe burns. 
 
 The two each face four counts of endangering a child, a state jail felony. They were both arrested at their northeast Houston residence around 9:30 Tuesday morning. Thompson told authorities she is pregnant with Malone's child. 
 
 The other children are in CPS custody.
– An absolutely awful story out of Houston, where police say four children were left alone Monday night and their mother came home to find one of them dead. The two 3-year-old siblings of the 19-month-old little girl who died, J'Zyra Thompson, told authorities that one of them put the baby in the oven and the other one turned it on and made it "hot," ABC 13 reports. J'Zyra, they said, kicked the oven door while she was trapped inside. The oldest sibling, 5, was apparently asleep at the time, Click2Houston reports. When Racqual Thompson, the children's mother, returned home from going out with her boyfriend to get takeout pizza and pick up a prescription, she attempted CPR, but it was too late. J'Zyra died of multiple burns. Police say Racqual Thompson had left the children without informing a grandmother who also lived at the apartment complex. The three surviving children are in foster care, as CPS could not find suitable relatives to care for them. Criminal charges are expected, though none have yet been filed. (In Kentucky, an arrest has been made in the killing of a girl who went missing at a football game.)