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Mother due in court after baby dies in fall from balcony

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ATLANTA - A Savannah woman whose 19-month-old son fell to his death from a hotel balcony in Atlanta is due in court Monday. <br> <br> Twenty-nine-year-old Donna Neel is charged with reckless conduct, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and possessing less than an ounce of marijuana. <br> <br> Her son - Hunter Neel - fell five stories from the ninth floor of the Omni Hotel on March third. He was pronounced dead at Grady Memorial Hospital. <br> <br> Atlanta police say Neel had left the room to get breakfast and had left several teen-agers in the ninth-floor room with Hunter. The toddler slipped through the balcony rail and fell to the roof of a fourth-floor restaurant. <br> <br> Hunter&#39;s father is in the military. Police say Donna Neel was in Atlanta visiting a friend.
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