If you’re a juvenile court judge charged with hearing child neglect cases, it’s probably not a good idea to leave your 4-year-old alone wandering the streets at night:
Fulton County Juvenile Court Judge Nina Hickson issued a public apology Monday as two more inquiries began regarding her leaving her 4-year-old daughter home alone while she ran a late-night errand.
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Hickson, a 43-year-old single parent, acknowledged in a two-page written statement that she made a mistake in leaving her daughter, Wesley Victoria, home alone to make a dash back to Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport to claim a piece of luggage.
“I, of all people, should have known better,” the judge said.
Hickson said she and her daughter had returned home from a trip about 10:45 p.m. and she thought her daughter was safely asleep for the night when she decided to go to the airport.
But a passer-by found the girl wandering on an East Point street, looking for her mother, and called authorities.
East Point police contacted Atlanta police, who returned the girl to her mother.