http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/...r_abandoning_daughters_6gjZQzoocnmH6O37AbmbbOA Brooklyn woman was arrested after coldly abandoning her two young daughters on the street yesterday afternoon, police said.
Dalisha Adams, 26, was busted at 11:24 p.m. Sunday after cops matched the girls' identities with photo records from ACS, police said.
The girls were bundled up for the weather and were clutching several clean diapers.
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The shaken girls were not injured and are currently in the custody of ACS after being taken to Brookdale University Hospital for evaluation.
Cops said the little girls knew their mother's first name, but could not tell cops where they lived.
Adams was charged with two counts of endangering the welfare of a minor after surrendering to cops.
A neighbor, who did not want to be named, said Adams verbally abused her daughters.
"She's always yelling at her kids, saying, 'Shut the f--- up,'" the neighbor said. "I used to hear her yelling, 'Get the f--- out of here!'"
Another neighbor added, "She treats them very shabbily. ... It's not right."
Adams also has a third daughter who is 8. She was at an aunt's home at the time.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...s-leaving-brooklyn-sidewalk-article-1.1013912“Mommy just left us on the sidewalk and drove away,” the older girl told a Daily News photographer just seconds after a good Samaritan found her and her sister stranded on a bustling corner in Canarsie on Sunday.
The girls were bundled up in hooded down coats, wearing UGG boots and holding fresh disposable diapers when they were found just before 3 p.m. in front of the Bay View Houses on Shore Parkway, cops said.
“They gave us their first names and said their mom dropped them off,” a police source said.
The older girl told cops her name is Domini and that her little sister, who said very little to police, is Dioni, a source said.
“We live in a blue house with flowers in front,” Domini told The News as cops took custody of her and her sister.
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The sisters bore no obvious signs of abuse, but were taken to Brookdale University Hospital as a precaution.
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The older girl told cops their mother’s name is Dalisha and she was driving a white car, but she did not know the make nor model of the vehicle.
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Cops were first alerted to the bizarre case when they received a 911 call after an elderly couple found the children standing at the busy intersection of Shore Parkway and E. 102nd St. with cars zooming by, sources said.
“They were wandering up and down the sidewalk for a while, just playing by themselves,” said Michelle Davis, 43, of Brooklyn, who was visiting a friend at the Bay View Houses when the girls were found.
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The girls were not crying, but appeared confused as to why their mother would desert them on the streets.
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http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&id=8524069The children's paternal grandmother, 52-year-old Bertha Davia, spoke with Eyewitness News reporter NJ Burkett and disputed the police account. She lives in the complex, next door to where the children were found. She says the mother clearly intended to leave the kids with her, but she is furious because she was never notified of their arrival. She said she had no idea until she saw pictures of them in the news media.
"She left them on the corner here," she said. "I live all the way over there. And they was roaming the hallways and all that. Why would she do that to my grandkids? For what reason?"
Although she is angry at the mother, she says the kids were not abandoned on some random streetcorner. This case, she said, may be more of a misunderstanding than anything else.
Davia went to ACS and has asked that the children be placed in her care indefinitely.
"I hope the mother never gets them back, because you don't deserve them," she said. "You don't take your kids and leave them on no street. Two and three years old, c'mon, that's wrong."
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