A mother from Dade City, Fla., was arrested in Georgia Monday after leaving three children alone at a Waffle House to go drinking, The Augusta Chronicle reports.
According to police, two 12-year-olds and an 11-year-old were seen crying by employees and customers after Rhiannon Gentry, 38, left them.
Gentry was gone for an hour and a half while she went to Wild Wing Café, and a waitress reported that Gentry had not left enough money to pay for the food and that the children “cried on several occasions” when the mother did not come back, according to The Chronicle.
A customer said he spotted the children trying to cross the street and stopped them. He found out two of the kids belonged to Gentry, and went into Wild Wing to find her drinking with two men.
Police arrived at the Waffle House and when Gentry returned she claimed that she left the children to pay for drinks she ordered earlier at Wild Wing and “had not been gone long,” according to The Chronicle.
Gentry’s two children were turned over to their grandmother and the third child was returned to her mother. The mother told police she met Gentry and her kids earlier at a hotel pool and let her daughter go out to eat with them but was unaware that she would be left unattended.
Gentry was taken to Richmond County jail and charged with three counts of deprivation of a minor.
Read more at chronicle.augusta.com
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