Woman gets 7 years in prison for abandoning child on Georgia highway

A North Georgia woman has been sentenced to seven years in prison for abandoning her 14-month-old on the side of a highway, authorities said.

Kimorra Tubbs, 23, of Grayson, was accused of abandoning the child on the side of Ga. 11 on March 29, 2017, the Newton County District Attorney's Office said in a Facebook post.

The child was found the next day around 6 p.m. by someone walking along the highway who heard the child crying, the post said. The child was found alone, locked in a car seat.

Tubbs originally claimed she left the child with a babysitter, the post said. However, law enforcement confirmed the babysitter didn’t exist, and mobile phone records showed Tubbs was near where the child was found around midnight on March 29.

She will serve the first seven years of her 20-year sentence in confinement, the post said. She’s been ordered not to have any contact with her child, and she cannot work or volunteer with children, or have any unsupervised contact with children.

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