Twice-Accused Baby Kidnapper Had One Thing on Her Record Nobody Checked Before She Took These Two Girls

A baby was four days old when Lakesha Brown stole him from his mother.

Five years later, Brown was free with an outstanding warrant for that exact crime.

Nobody caught that warrant before she got close to two more little girls.

She Had a Warrant and Was Still on the Streets

In August 2021, Lakesha Brown was a family friend inside a Fairfield, Alabama home where a new mother had just given birth.

When the mother fell asleep, Brown took 4-day-old Kamarion Taylor and disappeared.

She was caught, arrested, and charged with first-degree kidnapping.

Then the Alabama court system set her bond at $100,000 and let her walk out the door.

Brown never went back to court. Records show she missed her court date in May, and the warrant against her sat open while she moved freely across state lines.

The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office said during the 2021 investigation that information suggested Brown may have attempted similar behavior before that case.

Before.

So the 2021 kidnapping may not have been her first. It definitely wasn't her last.

Atlanta Never Had a Chance to Know

Atlanta police said Brown had known the girls' mother and gained her trust over approximately a year – the same slow, deliberate pattern predators use.

Saturday night, their mother left for dinner at 6 p.m., trusting Brown to watch the girls.

Brown texted a family member around 6 p.m. claiming she was taking the girls to Walmart.

Then she told a family member she and the girls had been in some kind of crash.

Hospitals had no record of any crash, and no record of the girls at all.

When the mother couldn't reach Brown after returning from dinner, she called 911 at 10:30 p.m.

An Amber Alert went out while Brown fled in a 2009 white Ford F-350 with Alabama plates.

Atlanta police, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, and the FBI worked through the night using cell phone data to narrow her location.

By Monday afternoon, officers tracked Brown to a trailer on Sylvan Road – and heard a baby crying inside.

Both girls were alive.

One Warrant Nobody Enforced for Five Years

Here's what Alabama's criminal justice system produced: a twice-accused child kidnapper with an open warrant, free to roam and free to cross state lines while an active case against her sat untouched.

No monitoring. No follow-through. No one flagging her to Georgia authorities before two little girls ended up missing.

The White House called this problem exactly what it is – a government-backed crime spree. When someone charged with first-degree kidnapping of a newborn can walk away on bond, skip court, and the system shrugs, children pay the price.

Senator Tim Sheehy's JAIL Act, introduced in November 2025, would let victims sue soft-on-crime judges who release violent offenders back onto the streets. Cases like Brown's are why that bill exists.

Brown had a first-degree kidnapping charge on her record and a warrant for skipping court. She should have been behind bars when the Cooper girls' mother was looking for a babysitter.

She wasn't. The system failed three children in five years, and it never had to.

Sources:

• Kelsie Cairns, "Babysitter Accused of Kidnapping Two Young Sisters Was Previously Charged With Abducting Newborn," Fox News, August 17, 2026.
• Matt Quillen, "Children Kidnapped: Atlanta Suspect Accused of Similar Crime in Alabama," WSB-TV, August 17, 2026.
• "2 Missing Atlanta Sisters Found, Babysitter Arrested for Kidnapping," Fox 5 Atlanta, August 17, 2026.
• "Bond Set for Accused Kidnapper of Baby," Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, August 26, 2021.
• Tim Sheehy, "Soft-on-Crime Judges Need Consequences – The JAIL Act Delivers," Fox News, June 8, 2026.
• "Cashless Bail Is a Government-Backed Crime Spree," White House, August 25, 2025.