5-year-old found wandering street alone at night in Hall County

A Gainesville woman is in jail after police found her 4-year-old son wandering alone at night, marking the second such incident in the city in two months.

The child was discovered by an officer on routine patrol along Myrtle Street, less than a mile from downtown Gainesville, just before midnight on Monday.

Police say the boy’s mother, 24-year-old Magdalena Carmelo-Gomez, had left him home alone while she worked an overnight shift…

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