9-year-old girl calls police while driving with ‘drunk’ father

 

A terrified 9-year-old girl pleaded with her “drunk” father to pull over while telling a police dispatcher she was riding with him in a harrowing 911 call released by authorities in Georgia.

“Hello, is this 911? … The only person that’s here is my dad and he’s drunk,” the girl told the police dispatcher during a 17-minute call on Sunday. “Help me, please! Help me!”
The girl, who was riding in the car with her father, Wesley Charles Burgner, 36, and her little sister, was traveling from Atlanta to Burgner’s parents’ home in St. Simons in late January, Fox8.com reported.
“I don’t know where we’re going. He’s driving really fast,” the girl told police. “I think I’m going to get into a wreck.”
The police dispatcher was eventually able to calm the girl down enough to get her to recall her grandparents’ address. Police later found the girls and Burgner at the location, where he was arrested after being observed by cops as “visibly intoxicated,” ABC News reports.
Moments earlier, the 9-year-old girl had begged her father to simply stop the car.
“I don’t know where I am right now,” she told the police dispatcher. “Daddy, stop the friggin’ car! Stop the car. Pull over somewhere!
“Wesley had slurred, slowed speech, had trouble standing, had trouble formulating sentences, stumbled when he walked and smelled of an alcoholic beverage,” the police report said. “Wesley admitted he had been driving.”
Burgner, who is being held at the Glynn County Detention Center, now faces charges of DUI, endangering the welfare of a child by driving under the influence of alcohol and driving with a suspended license, according to jail records.