SOUTH FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — Police say a man has been arrested on human trafficking charges after an 11-year-old girl disappeared last week.
Police said the child ran away from her home in South Fulton County on May 21, but was later found safe in Atlanta. Channel 2 Action News is not identifying her because she is a victim.
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Police initially said she was last seen with another child in the Publix Plaza on Campbellton Road.
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Police said Ernest Mack, who goes by the name Pittsburgh, was arrested for human trafficking, child molestation, statutory rape, cruelty to children in the first degree and enticing a child for indecent purposes.
Mack is at the Fulton County jail.
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