SMYRNA, Ga. -- On Saturday, a desperate mother made a desperate move, driving nearly a thousand miles to abandon her son.

The Cobb County mother drove from Smyrna, to Lincoln, Nebraska and dropped her 12-year-old off at a hospital there.

CBS 46's Renee Starzyk spoke with the woman Monday to find out why.

Tysheema Brown said she had nowhere to turn.

"If you haven't been there then you do not have a clue," said Brown.

Brown is a mother at the end of her rope. Her 12-year-old son Talonn has been in and out of juvenile jail, kicked out of school repeatedly, and sent to relatives' homes.

“I'm a parent who's been on top of my child, on top of everything. There is not one thing, not one teacher, not one principal, not one school, not one anything that can say Ms. Brown hasn't done anything for her child," said Brown.

Talonn has lied, stolen, and failed classes. Brown says for year, her son continued to get in trouble. Fearing Talonn would end up in juvenile jail for good, Brown loaded up him and her 7-year-old daughter and drove more than 15 hours to a Nebraska hospital last weekend.

There, she left Talonn at a safe haven.

"He's not stressed out, he's not feeling lonely, not feeling quote unquote abandoned because he knows his mom didn't abandon him. He knows his mom placed him there to get help," said Brown.

Brown feels the system in Georgia failed her. She says her decision to drive to Nebraska was carefully thought out and her last resort.

"I ran out of fight. I ran out of hope, but I have never run out of love for my child," said Brown.

Every state, including Georgia, has a safe haven law allowing parents to abandon newborns.

Nebraska is the only one without an age limit, but that's about to change.

Since the law went into effect in July a total of 20 children have been abandoned.

None have been infants.

Nebraska’s governor and senate have agreed to change the safe-haven law so it applies only to infants up to three days old.

Lawmakers will take the issue up in January.