Kids Safe, Mother Charged in Abduction

A West Ashley woman is facing charges in Appling County, Georgia, after Charleston Police located her at home with her children Wednesday night.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation issued an emergency missing child alert at at 6 p.m. for two children, a 7-year-old boy and a 9-year-old girl who had allegedly been abducted by their mother, Patricia Michelle Moon. The alert stated the children had been taken from a home on Olivia Drive in North Charleston, and that the children were believed to be in extreme danger.

Charleston Police located Moon at her home on Stinson Drive around 7:30 p.m. where she was taken into custody on charges from Apling County, according to a CPD statement. The children were unharmed.

Moon was apparently supposed to turn her children over to their father, who had been awarded custody, but missed the Wednesday deadline, according to according to WTOC in Baxley, Ga.