'Fugitive Mom' Turns Herself in After Nearly 2 Years on the Run - Crime Watch Daily

many know Chelsea Cullen as the fugitive mom but now she's the fugitive no more how's it feel to be home it's great very excited art Harris Lamar Atlanta philia WGCL has been ahead of this story from the beginning and speaks exclusively to Chelsea after her release from jail what's on your mind what are you hoping for um I'm just very thankful for my family and they've been very supportive about this whole process and I'm just I'm ready to to fight for my baby and and what I believe in Chelsea turned herself in after taking her infant son lain on the run for nearly two years skipping town to escape what she calls an abusive relationship with the boy's father Michael Hambrick I don't know if Michael played the poor dad card but they don't have the story right the young moms Odyssey began after she called 911 for help before vanishing with her son already called on the 29 year old mom was indicted for custodial interference her justification is that she was the victim of domestic abuse and I'm saying there is no evidence to support that her disappearance sparking a nationwide manhunt but : decided to turn herself in after an army of federal marshals descended on the homes of her family seizing computers cell phones and thumb drives all in hopes of locating Cullen your lawyer says that you're the hero in this that you did not want to see your family pressured anymore and you really did this out of love I didn't want to see my family continue to be harassed for supporting their daughter that they in a cause that they truly believed in the women inside supportive of you that they know who you were some of them recognized me from TV I met women in there that truly changed my life forever and they all told me I was very brave and that I wish they could have done what I did may well be a noble story but there's still a long road ahead when it comes to the court battle until then the former fugitive mother has been released on a $1,500 bond and while she's out of jail she'll be forced to wear a monitoring device on her ankle

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Keywords: Chelsea Cullen, fugitive, mom, Michael Hambrick, abusive, relationship, custody, custody battle, crime, investigation, Crime Watch Daily

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Length: 2min 27sec (147 seconds)

Published: Tue May 31 2016