A Georgia man who left his kids to play at a local McDonald’s playground without adult supervision while he went to a job interview was arrested recently.
Chris Louis, 24, was charged with deprivation of a minor on March 22, The Augusta Press reported. That day, a customer at a McDonald’s in Augusta noticed three kids — ages 1, 6, and 10 — playing in the indoor playground area by themselves.
The customer called 911, and a local deputy responded and discovered the children weren’t accompanied by an adult. A witness reported seeing Louis with the kids at 4:30 p.m. before seeing him leave the restaurant, return, and then leave again.
When he returned to the McDonald’s at 6:18 p.m., deputies detained him there.
He told officers he didn’t own a car and walked to the restaurant with his kids from his apartment, but he didn’t want to make them walk back alone while he went to a job interview nearby.
Louis was taken into custody, and the children’s mother came to the scene to pick up the kids.
Louis has received an outpouring of support on social media, with some even rallying for release and offering financial aid.
“Sounds like he could use a little help. He’s trying,” one person wrote. The 10-year-old was watching them! I watched my sisters at 10 and they are alive and breathing,” one woman wrote.
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