BLACK NEWS — Chris Louis, a 24-year-old father from Augusta, Georgia, was arrested last week after he left his three young children alone at a McDonald’s while attending a nearby job interview.
Louis was charged with deprivation of a minor after authorities found his children — ages 1, 6, and 10 — unattended inside the fast-food restaurant.
Police say that Chris walked with his children from their apartment to the McDonald’s, which features an indoor playground, and left them there while he went to the interview.
Witnesses saw Louis with the children around 4:30 p.m. and reported that he left and returned multiple times.
He came back to the restaurant shortly after 6:00 p.m., at which point officers detained him. The children’s mother arrived shortly afterward to pick them up.
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Former NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown was among those moved by the story, writing on social media, “A dad just trying to find a way to make money for his family. I know he shouldn’t just leave his kids, but some people don’t have the means for babysitting.”
Brown started a GoFundMe page to raise support for Chris, contributing $1,000 of his own money. “Chris was on the Pursuit of Happiness & sometimes ppl just need help,” Brown said on X, formerly known as Twitter.
In just five hours, the fundraiser reached over $28,000 of its $50,000 goal …