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We may listen twice next time we hear a teacher complain they don’t get any respect from parents. A mother and daughter are being charged with violently attacking a high school teacher, supposedly because the girl was failing the teacher’s class and the mom wasn’t too happy about it. Gee, we can’t understand why the teen might be have problems in school when she has such a fine role model at home.

Police charged Georgia Thornton, 44, and her 17-year-old daughter Sequita with attacking Felecia Williams, a teacher at Southside High School on February 28. The official charges against the mother include battery on a school teacher, disrupting a public school, criminal trespass and theft by taking in connection with the alleged attack on teacher.

Sequita Thornton was charged with battery on a teacher and disrupting a public school.

Williams told WSB-TV Channel 2 that the teenager was failing her TV Production class. The teacher claims Georgia Thornton visited the school to complain about the girl’s treatment and attacked her during the meeting, knocking her to the ground, kicking and punching her and pulling her hair. Williams claims Sequita Thornton joined the attack.

“And then she threw the book back and just took me like this and then started flinging me everywhere,” said Williams.

Williams said eventually two of her students stepped in and stopped the attack.

Tommy Christopher Cox, 32, was convicted last November for selling an Atlanta boy for sex in Chicago hotel rooms. Yesterday Cox was sentenced to 13 years in prison.

In October, Cox pleaded guilty to possessing more than 800 stolen credit-card numbers that he used to rent hotel rooms in Chicago at which he would host parties and sell the boy for sex.

Cox’s attorney, Gal Pissetzky, asked the judge for a 5-year sentence, while prosecutors sought up to 15 1/2 years. Pissetzky said his client plans to appeal.

A Georgia man who is a convicted child molester took his 4 year old daughter without permission as he does not have custody of the little girl.

Minor Topics is thinking this might not turn out well. The child molester is wanted for bond violation. There is nothing good that happen with him having unfettered access to a small child. I can only imagine the kind of abuse he will likely inflict upon her.

She needs to be found.

ATLANTA (FOX 5) – Authorities were trying locate a missing child and her father Saturday.

Police and U.S. Marshals were searching for 51-year-old Jerry Jones who reportedly took off with his 4-year-old daughter, Madison Kerr Friday night and the pair hasn’t been seen since.

ATLANTA — A young boy’s mother drove a getaway car for her son and other local teens involved in a burglary spree, police said Friday.

Police continue to look for Lakechia Woodard, 36, for driving her 12-year-old son and three friends to a house off Flat Shoals Road where they stole 14 rifles.

Suffice it to say, these kids don’t have a chance.

But the “understatement of the day” award goes to the victims son:

“You pick your son up after he’s done robbing a place? That’s bad. That’s bad on you,” said a burglary victim’s son, Willis Grant.

Another reason to install a home alarm system right away…

DeKalb County police Monday were investigating a home invasion shooting that left a 7-year-old boy dead and his 15-year-old sister critically wounded.

Police said they had no suspects and had not determined a motive.

The shooter entered a two-story brick home on Toney Drive just before midnight, went to an upstairs bedroom where the victims were sleeping “and opened fire,” DeKalb police spokeswoman Mekka Parish said.

Potential Suspect:
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“Both of them were hit multiple times,” Parish said. “The girl was taken to a local hospital, and the boy was pronounced dead at a local hospital.” Their identities were not immediately released.

Far too many children are dying as a result of falling out of windows. Parents need to be diligent as a result:

ATLANTIC CITY - A toddler died Tuesday morning after he wiggled from his father’s arms and fell through a hotel’s third-story window, police said.

Aftab Master was holding his young son, Miron, at about 10:15 a.m., when the boy apparently leaned forward and pressed on the open window’s screen, which gave way, Police Chief John Mooney said. The screen and the child fell through the window, landing on the parking lot below.