A 4-year-old boy was found wandering alone at the Georgia Green apartment complex on Fourth Street, Athens-Clarke County police said.
When police arrived they found the boy in the parking lot, and he was able to show them where he had come from — an apartment where the front door was standing open according to police. A woman who was supposed to be caring for the boy said she was asleep and unaware he left the apartment, police said. The boy’s father lived at the apartment but was at his job at the time.
The boy’s mother, who has legal custody of the child, arrived on the scene and speculated the boy might have been trying to get to where she lived, in an adjacent apartment complex, according to police.