Police say a mother used her child to breaking into the room of an extended stay last week.
Austell police body camera video shows officers arrive to the motel on Veterans Memorial Highway to speak with the victim and management.
“The suspect used her child to break into the victim’s home,” Austell Police Capt. Timothy Allen said.
In the body camera video you can hear an officer say “She put the little boy through there?” while looking at security camera video inside the motel.
“The officers were able to go to the leasing office and pull security footage confirming that this is actually what happened,” he said.
Investigators said Charisma Brown told her child to unlock the door after she put him in the window.
“She forced the window open, put the child in the window, entered in the unlocked the door to let the suspect and another male suspect in the room and they took out items,” he said.
Charisma Brown is charged with burglary, theft by taking and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
Jarrell Wadell, a second suspect is charged with burglary and theft by taking.
“For law enforcement our concern is doing that getting kids involved with criminal activity introduces them into an element that is not safe for them. our concern is that child being introduced to that kind of behavior thinking its normal and then they grow up thinking that behavior is normal,” he said.
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