Georgia Dad Left Young Children at McDonald's While He Went to a Job Interview. Cops Were Waiting When He Returned

A Georgia man was arrested last week after leaving his three young children in a McDonald's restaurant without supervision while attending a job interview.

Chris Louis, 24, was charged with deprivation of a minor on March 22. Authorities responded to the McDonald's at 2902 Washington Road in Augusta after a concerned bystander noticed the children, aged 1, 6 and 10, in the restaurant alone, reported The Augusta Press.

A responding deputy arrived at the scene to find the children unaccompanied, with a witness reporting seeing them with Louis at 4:30 pm.

Louis was detained by law enforcement as soon as he returned to the restaurant around 6:18 pm. He told officers that he did not own a car, and that he lived in an apartment nearby and did not want to make his children walk back alone while he attended the interview.

Louis was arrested and taken into police custody while the children's mother arrived at the scene to pick up the children.