Woman arrested for leaving infant and child home alone
Jan 29, 2013 | 4361 views | 1 1 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend | print
Laura Overfield
Laura Overfield
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A Calhoun woman was arrested on Wednesday and charged with two counts of cruelty to children after police responded to a 911 call from a child who said he didn’t know where his parents were.

Police say Laura Michelle Overfield, 25, of a Holly Hills residence, allegedly left the child, a 6-year-old, alone with an 8-month-old child for an estimated 35 minutes while she visited a neighbor.

An officer arrived on scene following the 911 call to find the 6-year-old standing in the doorway crying, according to police reports. Reports say the officer went inside and found the 8-month-old on the top of a 14-step staircase.

When the officer found Overfield, she told him that she had put the children to bed and brought flowers and a sympathy card over to a neighbor who had recently lost a family member, according to the police report.

DFACS officials were called to the scene and the children were left in the custody of a family member.
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Juliannasmith
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February 01, 2013
This quite disturbing. I couldn't imagine a person in a normal state of mind would dare to leave these children in an inappropriate age home alone. We must inculcate to our minds the possibilities of risk might happened as we left them unsupervised. Thus, I share this great App good for all phones especially on Smartphones to be used by all parents and this is good in protecting every families out from danger. This is called as Panic Button installed on a cellphone. Check it here for more info: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=skz.skz&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsInNrei5za3oiXQ..
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