The statewide alert issued Tuesday evening for an 8-year-old girl allegedly abducted from her Spalding County elementary school has been cancelled.
The child is safe and was brought to the Griffin Police Department by her father around 7 p.m., Griffin police Chief Frank Strickland told Channel 2 Action News.
Serinity Hutcherson had last been at 11:45 a.m. at Moore Elementary School when her father, Renargo Hutcherson, checked her out, Investigator Kelly McKinney with the Griffin Police Department told the AJC.
Renargo Hutcherson, 35, does not have legal rights to his daughter, but was listed on school documents as being allowed to check the girl out of class, McKinney said. Tuesday afternoon, the man had one phone conversation with the child's mother, according to police.
"He stated he's not going to return the child," McKinney said.
Griffin police asked for the GBI's help in alerting the public to the missing girl, and a "Levi's Call" was issued Tuesday evening.
Renargo Hutcherson was taken to the Spalding County Jail for violating a restraining order, Strickland told the AJC.
—Dispatch editor Angel K. Brooks contributed to this article.
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