Articles labeled: New York

A mom, seeking revenge on her daughter’s classmate, put an advertisement on Craigslist under her name; soliciting sex.

The mother happens to be a social worker as well. If true — what a freakin’ loser! This is strangely reminiscent of the woman who pretended to be a boy and lured a girl into a relationship and then used psychology which drove the teen girl to commit suicide.

This is inexcusable and this mom needs to get her license taken away. She’s the one in need of some serious therapy. She’s lucky nothing more serious happened and I do truly feel sorry for her daughter who is apparently being raised by what may be a sociopath.

(CNN) — A Long Island, New York, social worker is facing two misdemeanor charges after allegedly posting a sexually suggestive ad on Craigslist that gave interested parties the home phone number of a 9-year-old girl.

According to prosecutors, Margery Tannenbaum posted the ad to get revenge after an argument between her daughter and the girl, who attend the same school in Hauppauge, New York.

A New York boy jumped to his death off his apartment building’s roof when he used a plastic bag as a parachute.

Authorities have expanded the probe of a Hicksville, New York, school running an unlicensed day care, after a 2-year-old choked to death on a carrot. The investigation has expanded to another day care run by the same couple that own the Hicksville location.

A Brooklyn mother left her baby outside in freezing condition.

A New York prosecutor has accused two men of posing to be police officers and entering a couple’s home to steal their Christmas presents. Keep an eye out for the obligatory Grinch reference.

The men wore bulletproof vests bearing the New York Police Department logo and claimed to have a warrant, the Queens district attorney’s office said. They tied up Robert Kapovic and his wife and ransacked their home for nearly four hours, prosecutors said.

“They acted like the Grinch in the Dr. Seuss classic ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas,”‘ District Attorney Richard A. Brown said Monday in a statement. “Unfortunately for them their plan was foiled when real police officers stopped them and the victims’ belongings were returned in time for the holiday.”

Kapovic was pistol-whipped, and his wife was pushed around and threatened with the prospect of never seeing her children again, prosecutors said.

A 3-month-old was attacked by the family pit bull, and required emergency surgery.

An adult who was in the home when the attack occurred this afternoon called 911 for help.

The dog that caused the injuries was secured by a City of Tonawanda Police dog control officer and officials from the SPCA. They also took another pit bull from the home, but officials said there no indications the second dog was involved in the attack. The animals are being kept at the SPCA until further notice.

The relatives of a 20-month-old who was beaten to death now have 20/20 hindsight as they realize they had concerns for the child’s safety.

Anthony Weakfall Jr. was charged with second-degree murder in the beating of Imani Jennings. Police said Weakfall beat the toddler with a metal rod, cable wire and his hand for an hour after she urinated on the floor Friday morning. He then left for school.

Police said the toddler’s mother, 18-year-old Cherron Patterson, and Weakfall returned from school that day to find the child’s lifeless body.

Investigators said they also learned that for the last two weeks Patterson and Weakfall went to school and left the child home alone with only a bowl of chicken nuggets and a glass of milk. The pair also admitted beating the child as a form of discipline when she would have an accident, police said.

A toddler in upstate New York was shot and killed when a hunter fired a rifle too close to her grandparents’ mobile home where she was staying.

Edward Taibi, 45, of Queens was being held without bail Monday after arraignment on a second-degree manslaughter charge in the town of Bethel court. Taibi was hunting from a tree stand Sunday afternoon in rural Sullivan County when he shot a deer. He came down from the stand and fired the .30-caliber rifle again about 400 feet away from a trailer home in Swan Lake, a small community just south of the Catskill Mountains.

The bullet hit 16-month-old Charly Skala in the upper body. She was flown to Westchester Medical Center, where she died. Police said the child’s parents live in nearby Woodburne.

Taibi is friends with the owner of the neighboring property and had hunted there before, said State Police Lt. Pierce Gallagher.

Please people, just stop.

Americans took some getting used to Barack Obama’s name, but one proud New York mother celebrated his presidential election victory this week by naming her newborn in his honor.

“I promised myself that if Obama became president I would name him Barack,” Stephanie Treasure, 28, told the Daily News.

The newborn, Jordan Barack Treasure, arrived Monday and was in his mother’s arms in a New York hospital as the results showing Obama’s stunning victory came in, the News reported.

A Brooklyn, New York woman has admitted to fatally beating her 11-year-old daughter with a mop.

Florenzia Vazquez, 36, allegedly told detectives she hit the girl so hard on the head that the handle shattered.

The girl, Alejandra Vazquez, was found dead Sunday in the family’s Atlantic Avenue apartment — three days after she was left whimpering in her bedroom.

The mother and her unidentified boyfriend — the father of two of her other children — called 911 after a man renting a room from them saw the girl lying motionless, according to the Daily News.

Police have arrested a school bus driver and bus matron in the Bronx, New York for leaving a 3-year-old boy with autism on a bus for over 6 hours.

The driver, Terry Rocker, 25, of the Bronx, and the matron, Charlene Powell, 47, of Brooklyn, were charged with reckless endangerment, endangering the welfare of a child and endangering an incompetent person, the police said.

The police said the boy was reported missing shortly after 2 p.m. when his mother arrived at the boy’s school, Public School 194 at 2365 Waterbury Avenue and officials told her that her son never arrived at school that morning.

The police located the child, identified as Jose Marisol Lopez, on a school bus operated by Pinnacle Bus Company that was parked at the school. The child, according to reports, was suffering from dehydration and hunger. His identity was first reported by The Daily News.

A New York man is pleading not guilty for assaulting his stepson with a belt while his wife was locked in the basement.

Alon M. Holliday’s bail was set at $50,000 Monday in Nassau County District Court. It could not immediately be determined Monday evening whether he had posted bail.

Holliday’s lawyer says his client denies the charges, which also include unlawful imprisonment and endangering the welfare of a child.

Police say the 34-year-old attacked the boy for not washing his stepfather’s laundry. Police say Holliday locked his wife in the basement of their West Hempstead home when she tried to intervene.

The stepbrother of an 11-year-old girl in upstate New York has been charged with her strangulation death. Before her murder, the girl was starved and lived in a garbage filled house that also contained over 100 cats.

Alan Jones, 27, was indicted on a second-degree murder charge in the death of Erin Maxwell on Aug. 29. The girl died a day after she was found unconscious in her bedroom with a green cord around her neck, one end caught on a nail in a window frame.

Lindsey Maxwell, 35, the girl’s father, and Lynn Maxwell, 53, her stepmother, were each charged with six counts of endangering the welfare of a child.

“Erin was being raised in a home with over 100 cats, as well as caged poultry. The home reeked of animal urine. There was animal feces over 18 inches deep in one of the rooms,” State Police Capt. Mark Lincoln said.

Investigators found that Erin was given “minimal amounts of food” and routinely locked every night in a small bedroom. She weighed only 65 pounds, Lincoln said.

Two police officers in Syracuse, New York rescued a 7-year-old that caught on fire while playing with matches.

Jackari Garrett suffered second- and third-degree burns on 25 percent of his body and was in serious condition Thursday at University Hospital, said Lt. Joe Cecile. The boy was burned on the left side of his body from his face, down his torso, to his leg, Cecile said.

Officers Jeffrey Fleming and Scott Fura were on routine patrol about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday when they spotted the boy running across the street carrying what they thought was a flaming object. The officers quickly realized the boy was on fire, Cecile said.

Fleming and Fura jumped out of their patrol car and chased after the boy, grabbing him and rolling him in wet grass to put the fire out.

A man who cops say appeared drunk stumbled off from a Staten Island, New York train station, apparently forgetting that he had his 8-month-old daughter in tow.

Police say Eduardo Garcia, 23, of the 5400 block of Arthur Kill Road, appeared intoxicated when they were summoned to the scene shortly after 3 a.m.

A woman spotted Garcia dozing on the bench with his daughter in the stroller, a few feet from the tracks, and tried to wake him up, court papers allege.

When he awoke, he wandered away and left the train station, according to cops.

Police said they found him at the intersection of Prospect and Bay streets, about a block away. He’s charged with endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor.