{"id":818360,"date":"2026-08-19T03:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/818360\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T03:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:40:14","slug":"georgia-kidnapping-bodycam-shows-kids-found-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/818360\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia kidnapping: Bodycam shows kids found safe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bodycam video shows Atlanta police finding abducted children in trailer with babysitter from Birmingham<\/p>\n

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Atlanta police released bodycam footage on Tuesday showing them finding two abducted Georgia children and arresting their babysitter<\/a> from Birmingham.<\/p>\n

Watch the full bodycam video released in the video player below.<\/p>\n

State investigators said the babysitter, Lakesha Brown of Alabama, gained the mother’s trust over about a year before taking the children. The children were originally abducted Saturday around 6 p.m. from James P. Brawley Drive NW in Atlanta.<\/p>\n

Police said they were dispatched around 10:30 p.m. Sunday for what was initially thought to be a custody dispute.<\/p>\n

The mother delayed calling 911 because Brown had provided false information, claiming she was returning the children and later saying she had been in an accident, police said. <\/p>\n

An Amber Alert was issued for the children.<\/p>\n

Brown was taken into custody after the children were located on Sylvan Road in Atlanta, the Atlanta Police Department said Monday.<\/p>\n

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Members of the police department’s fugitive unit acted on a tip from someone on the property about a woman staying in a private trailer. Detectives heard a baby crying and entered the trailer, where they found Brown and the children.<\/p>\n

The children appeared to be in good health and were taken to a hospital for evaluation.<\/p>\n

Previous kidnapping charges<\/p>\n

Brown, a Birmingham woman, was already facing charges in a separate kidnapping case in Alabama. Authorities said she had an outstanding warrant for failing to appear in court for that case, which had similar circumstances.<\/p>\n

Alabama court records matched her name and date of birth to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s Amber Alerts for the children. <\/p>\n

Authorities said they are hoping to learn a motive once they interview Brown at police headquarters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bodycam video shows Atlanta police finding abducted children in trailer with babysitter from Birmingham ATLANTA \u2014 Atlanta police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[347213,5183,347209,347204,22547,347199,5786,347211,347206,113331,12193,17864,347216,270752,24893,175159,97688,220506,50158,4,450,13097,347208,347212,179801,347210,29204,44923,347202,125746,347214,681,347218,347198,347197,451,347217,347201,29378,347200,23693,235760,15389,3,22215,347205,347215,13546,347207,2384,452,453,48481,16798,347203,47222],"class_list":["post-818360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-abducted-children","tag-alabama","tag-alabama-charges","tag-alabama-license-plate","tag-amber-alert","tag-amber-alerts","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-child-kidnapping","tag-atlanta-kidnapping","tag-atlanta-police","tag-atlanta-police-department","tag-authority","tag-baby-crying","tag-babysitter","tag-birmingham","tag-birmingham-woman","tag-birth","tag-bodycam","tag-bodycam-video","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-child","tag-child-abduction","tag-child-kidnapping","tag-court-records","tag-custody-dispute","tag-date","tag-evaluation","tag-ford-f-350","tag-found-safe","tag-fugitive-unit","tag-georgia","tag-georgia-bureau","tag-georgia-bureau-of-investigation","tag-georgia-children","tag-headlines","tag-hospital-evaluation","tag-james-p-brawley-drive-nw","tag-kidnapping","tag-lakesha-brown","tag-location","tag-missing-children","tag-mother","tag-news","tag-p-m","tag-previous-kidnapping","tag-private-trailer","tag-story","tag-sylvan-road","tag-time","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-trailer","tag-trust","tag-white-truck","tag-wvtm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}