Child Left in Smyrna, Mother Arrested on a Prostitution Charge

A Lawrenceville woman who allegedly left her 18-month-old son at a Smyrna apartment complex last Wednesday and never came to pick him up at the designated time because she was arrested on a prostitution charge in Atlanta faces a new charge in Cobb County.

Laura Marie Robbins was arrested Tuesday in Cobb on a charge of contributing to the deprivation fo a minor, according to online jail records.

In a Cobb County criminal warrant, authorities allege that Robbins left her child with a woman she didn't know at The Greens at Windy Hill Apartment Homes. The babysitter, records show, was recommended to Robbins by another woman.

Robbins dropped off the child around 5 p.m. April 3 and said she'd be back at the same time the next day to pick up her child. When the designated pickup time passed, the babysitter called Robbins around 7 p.m. April 4.

"Robbins advised she would pick her child up on Friday," a Smyrna Police officer wrote in the warrant.

April 5 came and went with no sign of Robbins. The babysitter called the Smyrna Police Department just after 11:15 a.m. Sunday.

"Since the 5th, (the babysitter) has been unable to reach the mother only known to her as Laura," the officer wrote in the warrant. "No one answers the phone and the voicemail is filled."

A check revealed why Robbins did not answer her phone. The Atlanta Police Department arrested Robbins on April 6 on a prostitution charge, according to the warrant. She was released the same day from the Fulton County Sheriff's Office.

She is now in the Cobb County Adult Detention Center in lieu of $1,000 bond.

The child was placed in the care of the Cobb Division of Family and Children Services.