Dacula mom goes to jail

LAWRENCEVILLE - A former Gwinnett County teacher from Dacula who took her children to the Cayman Islands in defiance of a custody order begins a three-day stay in jail Tuesday. <br> <br> Joyce Williams took the children days after ex-husband Jeff Weeks was awarded custody in October 2000. Nine-year-old Emily and eight-year-old Jeffrey returned to Georgia on March 20th. <br> <br> Williams apologized for running away with her children during a two-hour hearing Monday in Gwinnett Superior Court. She told Judge Debra K. Turner that she was worried Weeks would hurt the children when they visited him. <br> <br> The children were found in Georgetown in the Cayman Islands in February after someone saw a Gwinnett Daily Post article on the Internet and called in a tip to police. <br> <br> A judge there ruled the children had to return to the United States to be with their father.

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