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The Alpharetta congregation of Sae Han Presbyterian Church was surprised to find that Associate Pastor Jongkyu Kim had gotten booked along with his wife Myunghwa Jeong, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The circumstances around Jongyu Kim's arrests are rather odd. It turns out that the associate pastor had left his three children at home while husband and wife attended a worship service at church. The children were aged two, six, and eight. The 2-year-old ended up walking around outside, crying and upset. He was discovered by a neighbor, who called the police.

Many parents, married and divorced, are quite responsible and tend to think about their children's future should something happen to the both of them. In considering this possibility, the question often arises of how to choose your child's guardian, reports The New York Times.

The paper poses the question through the life of a mom called Jennifer. She is struggling to determine who should be her children's guardian given that her nearest relative, her widowed mother, is approaching 70, and as such, is not the best long-term plan.

A Roswell mom, Ruth Parada, was arrested for allegedly locking her kids out in the cold and rain, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The incident occurred at the Belcourt Apartments off Belcourt Parkway. The kids locked out in the rain were aged 9 and 11.

"They were only wearing pajamas and no shoes, and it was cold and raining outside," Officer Lisa Holland, Roswell police spokeswoman, told WSBTV.

Will one of Atlanta's most eligible bachelors, Mayor Kasim Reed, be getting married soon?

If you were listening to the community affairs program "In Contact" with host Angela Robinson you may have accidentally gotten a hint of Kasim Reed's marriage in the near future, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The information came out during the last minutes of Angela Robinson's show when the viewing public could call in. One viewer asked if the Mayor would marry before the end of his term, and with a smile the Mayor said, "Yes, I think so."

The father of a Georgia teen is suing the military college, The Citadel, as well as one of its ex-cadets, for putting his daughter's name and phone number on a pornographic website, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Randy Upton, who is from Oxford, Georgia, is now suing to protect 17-year-old Kelsey Upton, after ex-cadet Andrew Steven Smith improperly used the pornographic site, reports the Post and Courier.

James Barrow, a 37-year-old, recently got life for killing his estranged wife in a mall parking lot, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He pleaded guilty for the act that was committed in front of the woman's teenage daughter.

The fatal shooting occurred in the parking lot of the Old National Discount Mall on Godby Road in College Road while the victim, Asa Barrow, was shopping with her 14-year-old daughter and the daughter's father Willie Lyles. During the stand-off, James Barrow shot Asa Barrow in the chest and then shot her three more times before leaving the scene.

A mother of two, Carulus Hines of Atlanta, reportedly thought she was God, as she stabbed her baby daughter and was eventually shot by the police when she did not stop, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Hines was described to the police operator as a healthy 40-year-old standing more than six feet tall and weighing three hundred pounds.

The police ended up shooting Carulus Hines sixteen times after she had first thrown her 8-year-old son out of a window and then sat down in a locked room holding her daughter in one arm and stabbing her with the other.

A well-respected scientist with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta has been charged with child molestation and bestiality in DeKalb County, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She is back to work after a preliminary hearing.

Dr. Kimberly Quinlan Lindsey is the deputy director for the Laboratory Science Policy and Practice Program Office at the CDC and has previously worked in terrorism preparedness. Her live-in boyfriend, Thomas Westerman, who works in other capacities at the CDC, is also charged with two counts of molestation, though no bestiality.

After the child-sex abuse scandals of Jerry Sandusky at Penn State and Bernie Fine at Syracuse, advocates and prosecutors in Georgia are demanding that Georgia's child sex abuse reporting law should have wider reach, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

One of the important ways in which Georgia Law tries to limit child sex abuse is by stipulating a mandatory reporting in Georgia requirement. As such, physicians, hospital personnel, dentists, psychologists, nurses, social workers, counselors, school teachers/officials, child welfare agency and child service organization personnel, law enforcement personnel, podiatrists, all have to report child abuse to the authorities.

The researchers at FindLaw have put together a useful chart that details Georgia's child abuse laws.

Two MMA fighters in Marietta were killed in a murder-suicide in their Springdale Drive home, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The Marietta MMA (mixed martial arts) fighters were identified as Maryellen Cano, 32, and her boyfriend, Wilburg Carl South, age 28. They were both fighters that had appeared on fight cards in Duluth. South’s nickname was “The Pitbull.”

The couple had been dating for about two years. They had been fighting professionally since about 2008.