News footage of Stone Mountain Highway in Stone Mountain, Ga. (WSB).
A Georgia mother’s fight with her teenage daughter has resulted in a criminal charge.
Delishia Dunn, 37, was charged with reckless conduct, a misdemeanor, after police said she left her 17-year-old daughter in the middle of a busy highway in Georgia’s Gwinnett County. According to reporting by local ABC affiliate WSB, police responded to a 911 call placed by the teen on the night of Nov. 5. At around 11 p.m., the officers met the girl at a McDonald’s restaurant on Stone Mountain Highway in Stone Mountain, Georgia.
Police said the “stranded” girl told them that she had a fight with her mother while they were in the car, and her mother told her to get out.
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According to WSB, the highway was dark, and the girl was unfamiliar with the area. Police said the girl had no money on her, and the cellphone she had did not have an active plan and could not make phone calls. The girl told officers that she ran across the busy roadway in the dark to the McDonald’s where she called 911 for help.
Brock Marks of the Gwinnett County Police Department told WSB, “The mother drove away with no efforts to find or relocate or even come back and discuss or talk with her child.”
Police brought the girl home, where she was left in the care of another relative. Officers also caught up with Dunn by phone. Marks told WSB, “She even herself said that, you know, she had to, she just left her there.”
An arrest warrant for Dunn was issued on Friday. She is not currently in custody and does not have a scheduled court date.
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