Officers find 3 autistic children unattended in home after responding to report of kid walking alone

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Albany news, Georgia news.

A Georgia man and his daughter were arrested last weekend after the woman’s three autistic children were found unattended inside a home.

The discovery was made Sunday when Albany Police officers responded to reports of a child walking without supervision on a road near his West Broad Avenue home.

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  • The officers investigating the incident found three autistic, non-verbal children unattended inside the home.

    Police said the children were aged 8, 4, and a 9-month-old. None of the children was reportedly injured.

    Officers waited until the children’s mother, 25-year-old Amia Elder, and their grandfather, 66-year-old Kenneth Elder, returned and arrested them for reckless conduct.