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A month old infant wrapped in a blanket was found by woman on the doorstep outside her home in Queens, New York.

A black handbag was left next to the baby; the police did not say what, if anything, was in the bag.

It was about 10 p.m. when the Holly Avenue resident, a 24-year-old woman, found the baby and called the police. Officers and an ambulance responded, and the baby was taken to Flushing Hospital where she was admitted in stable condition.

Some asshats decided to go all Fast and the Furious on a residential street, and now a young boy is dead because of it.

What neighbors said was a drag race along a residential street in Queens turned deadly early yesterday when one of the speeding cars hit a sport utility vehicle, throwing a 5-year-old boy from the backseat and killing him one block from his home, police said.

Police last night were looking for two men who fled on foot after crashing a blue BMW at 164th Place and 109th Avenue in Jamaica. Police said the BMW 540 was bought under the name of Hendry James. Police said James is not a suspect and has reported his identity stolen.

The BMW was speeding east on 109th Avenue when the car struck the SUV carrying the boy, Jordan McLean, his mother, Marcia McEachron, 44, and his aunt, Claris Edwards, 50, of Far Rockaway, shortly after midnight, police said. Jordan was in the back passenger seat, and was not strapped into a car seat or wearing a seat belt, police said.

A couple in Southampton, New York are being charged with child endangerment for leaving their 2-month-old in the car while they went into an OTB to watch the Kentucky Derby. And the brainiac mom can’t figure out that she did anything wrong:

Krystal Rose Downes, later told officers she thought her infant was safe enough because the car’s heat was on. She said she hadn’t endangered the baby “because after all, she didn’t leave the baby out in the cold,” and “she made sure she left the vehicle running so the heat could be kept on,” police told Newsday newspaper.

OK, this story is all kinds of messed up.

A 12-year-old girl died of a methadone overdose after taking pills she bought from a 15-year-old boy, authorities said.

The boy has been charged as a juvenile with criminally negligent homicide, criminal sale of a controlled substance and endangering the welfare of a child, his lawyer said Wednesday.

The boy took the pills — knowing what they were — from his father’s drawer March 10 and brought them to the girl, Dana Marie Regan, police youth investigator Charles Lopez testified Wednesday in Family Court in Westchester County. Methadone is best known as a prescription drug that curbs heroin addiction, but it increasingly is prescribed as a painkiller.

A 15-year-old girl from the Philippines is undergoing surgery to fix her feet that are so clubbed they twist upside down and backwards. Doctors at the Montefiore Medical Center in New York are performing the surgery free of charge. How cool is that? And hot on the heels of the story we highlighted last week about a pro bono surgery to remove a large tumor from a Vietnamese girl’s face. Rock on, medical community!

[Jingle Luis] and her mother have journeyed from the Philippines to Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx for surgery Thursday and follow-up treatment that will consist of slowly rotating her feet until she can walk normally.

Her case is more severe than those usually seen by doctors in industrialized countries.

“Generally speaking, with modern technology, it doesn’t get to this point,” said Dr. Terry Amaral, a pediatric orthopedic surgeon who will perform the surgery at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore.

A 7-year-old from Long Island, New York is in a coma after being struck by a car after he had made a purchase from an ice cream truck. We had a near miss ourselves as kids chasing after those siren song chimes, so we know how this can happen.

Javier Reyes remains in critical condition at Stony Brook University Medical Center.

The boy’s stepfather tells Newsday in Monday editions that doctors noted the boy’s brain was swelling and that they intended to keep him sedated for 48 to 72 more hours.

The stepfather says Reyes was at his East Patchogue home Sunday when he ran out the door to chase after the ice cream truck before his mother could stop him. He was struck as he stepped from behind the truck. Police say it was an accident.

Another day, another “pit bull mauls someone” story.

uthorities are looking for a pit bull that attacked a Cheektowaga toddler. There are concerns about whether the dog was updated on its rabies shots.

Two year old Brianna Warden has been through a lot over the past few days, and she’s got the scars to prove it. It all started when she and her mom were returning from a nearby park on Friday afternoon.

Anna said, “I came inside and the dog was sitting on the steps right here.”

It was the upstairs neighbors dog, a two year old Pit Bull named Doo.

A man and woman walked into a church in Queens, New York and gave the priest there a dead, decomposed baby and asked him to perform a religious burial for it. It’s being speculated that the couple’s teenage daughter had given birth to the baby then hid the baby before she ran away. All righty, then! That’s quite the saga!

The couple arrived at Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church, at 104-11 37th Avenue in Corona, with the body in a bag after an evening Mass, Mr. Browne said. They told the priest that they had found the body in a closet at their home. After the three of them prayed over the body, the couple left, and the priest called the police, Mr. Browne said.

The priest told the police that he did not know the couple, but believed that they might be parishioners.

The Rev. Thomas Healy, the priest at the church, was not available for comment on Thursday, his secretary said.

Well, we have to admit this way of abandoning a baby is certainly “creative”. A man in Queens, New York, flagged down a black “car for hire” (we’re assuming that means a limo or Town Car), got in with his 6-month-old baby, and after riding a few minutes he asked the driver to stop at which point he took off running leaving the infant girl behind.

The driver immediately took the infant to a firehouse in Corona, the police arrived and the baby was taken to St. John’s Queens Hospital, where she was in good condition.

Officials said the child had not been harmed. They had not identified her or her parents and had not determined whether the man who left her was a relative.

The police said the city’s Administration for Children’s Services would eventually take custody of the infant.

Police called to the scene of a domestic disturbance on Sunday found a grizzly scene — the three young children that lived in the apartment were found dead and lying in the same bed. Medical examiners are still trying to determine cause of death, but one of the officers present described it as “disturbing”, so perhaps we can do without the brutal details.

Officers were met at the two-story home by a woman who directed them to a top-floor apartment, where they found the children, Jewell Ward, 6, Michael Demesyeux, 5, and Innocent Demesyeux, 1. The 27-year-old single mother, [Leatrice Brewer] , wasn’t home but was found later, said police, who wouldn’t reveal where they arrested her.

Neighbors said Brewer, who cared for the children alone, had been overwhelmed. One neighbor, Cornisha Robinson, said she saw her last week pushing an empty stroller in the street and wondered where the children were.

“She neglected them,” Robinson said. “She used to leave them in the house all the time by themselves.”

But relatives and friends said Brewer loved the children, whom they called “wonderful.” They asked people to pray for her.

As bona fide germaphobes, we just can’t imagine how people can live in such filth. Even if you’re poor, it doesn’t cost any money to take out the trash or bust out a rag once in a while. You owe it to your kids.

A strong odor still wafted down the Rockville Centre street yesterday where a toddler and a half-dozen animals were found in an unsafe, trash-strewn house.

The boy, 1, and the pets were removed after police went to 40 South Marion Place Friday in response to a complaint of two men fighting. Police saw dangerous conditions in and around the house and the boy in a stroller in the living room, said Rockville Centre village administrator Frank Quigley.

“There were dead mice on the front lawn” and trash in the house, Quigley said. “There were all kinds of electrical violations … clothing piled up everywhere and a tremendously powerful stench.”

You have to be pretty sick to walk into a house and murder someone, but to use a corkscrew to do it? Whomever committed this act is one twisted individual (no pun intended, we swear to god) that needs to be found and locked up FAST. What a painful and horrific way to die.

The victim, a father of six, lived in the home for nearly 30 years. His 11-year-old daughter was the one who found him.

They checked in on the girl’s dad, Murat Saint Hilaire, Wednesday night, because they were worried.

They hadn’t heard from the 55-year-old in days and he missed work.

They never imagined what they’d find.

“She said ‘Call 911, call 911,’” Renelique said. “‘Because I don’t like what I saw,’ she said, she went inside and said ‘Something happened. He’s dead.’”

The little girl found her dad’s lifeless body on the bedroom floor.

The murder weapon: a corkscrew lodged in his head.

The New York Times today profiles Kerron Rhaday, 16, who lost her mother to ovarian cancer and is now living with her older sister, Sharon Rhaday, 37, who is her legal guardian. The piece details how Rhaday has been helped by the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services (a beneficiary agency of UJA-Federation of New York, which is supported by the New York Neediest Cases Fund), highlighting the importance of such charity to provide counseling, school tuition and more to ensure these kids don’t fall through the cracks after a devastating loss.

In July, Kerron started seeing Emma Dorfman, a social worker at the agency, weekly. “The counseling really helps,” Kerron said. “Emma, she helps you down the right path.”

The right path was hard to find after her mother’s death.

“When you have a mom,” Kerron said, “and see her every day like that, for me it was hard to concentrate a lot in school, because most times I would cry and stuff.”

Kerron, who had been a 10th grader at Sheepshead Bay High School, in Brooklyn, missed class to care for her mother.

She did not return to school after her mother died. “It’s stupid decisions, but at the time that’s what was best for me, I felt,” Kerron said.

In the fall, she started attending classes at an alternative high school program at the Jewish Board center, where she sees Ms. Dorfman. The one-year program helps students get back on track before returning to a mainstream high school, Ms. Dorfman said.

A teacher from Elmira, New York has been arrested for public lewdness after he did some naughty things at a local rest stop:

Police say Chris A. Troncone, 40, of Lawrenceville, Pa., exposed himself, committed a lewd act and made obscene comments in the presence of a rest area attendant while inside the men’s room at the rest area. The attendant said at least one other person entered the rest room but left quickly while Troncone allegedly was engaged in the lewd behavior.

Troncone, who is a first-grade teacher at Diven Elementary School in Elmira, has been suspended pending the outcome of the police investigation, Elmira City School District spokesperson Kristin Butler said.

Gotta watch out at those rest areas and forest preserves! And yes, the teacher has been suspended, but his firing is not a sure thing even if he is found guilty:

Letters from Superintendent Dr. Raymond Bryant are being sent home with all Diven students Wednesday explaining that Troncone was arrested off of school property for an incident that did not involve children. The letter also says that administrators have no reason to believe Troncone has done anything in the classroom to cause concern.

And here we were chastising Utah for having to pass a law to get pervy teachers out of the classroom. Sorry, Dr. Bryant, but while we agree with you up to a point in terms of private sector jobs, Troncone’s unfettered access to children requires a person of the utmost character. Certain behaviors a teacher engages in off of school property absolutely reflects on their worthiness of being in the classroom (and lest you think we’re prudes, we don’t think, say, racy pics on MySpace is an actionable offense).

You can’t make this stuff up.

If this is true, I hope this boy finds a home with parents who love him. It’s not too late for him to find peace.

A daycare employee is also being charged by failing to report observed burns all over the boys body.

AIRMONT, N.Y. — Police arrested a woman Friday after her 7-year-old son told authorities she burned him in an oven, and a day-care worker was arrested for not reporting the attack, authorities said.

The mother, 26-year-old Tiffany Fraser of Tallman, was charged with assault and endangering a child, authorities said.

Police began investigating after the boy was spotted alone at a shopping center and told officers he had run away because “his mother had put him in an oven and burned him as a punishment,” according to police reports.