Some things just never cease to shock me. [img]frown.gif[/img]
when i read something like this. i get SO upset. [img]frown.gif[/img] The whole thing is like some dysfunctional joke. 27 year olds impregnating 14 year olds... illegal immigrants, child abandonment. The state of the world would make me vomit, if i wasn't already sick.
NYC Cabbie Says He Was Trying to Help
A livery cab driver initially hailed as a hero said he was just trying to do "the right thing" when he told a tale of finding a baby girl abandoned in his car.
Driver Klever Sailema was commended after he took the 6-month-old girl to a Queens firehouse Thursday and told authorities an unknown man had left her in his car and disappeared. But Sailema, who prosecutors say faces charges, said he lied to save the girl.
Under questioning by detectives, he admitted he knew the mother's family in the Bronx and had participated in the plan to abandon the baby.
"I feel bad, but ultimately I feel like I did the right thing," the Ecuadorean immigrant told the Daily News for Monday's editions. "My intentions were not to lie to the police."
Sailema was arraigned late Saturday on charges of falsely reporting an incident and criminal facilitation, prosecutors said. His girlfriend, Maria Siavichay, was arraigned on a charge of criminal facilitation.
A judge released Sailema and Siavichay, 21, without bail and ordered them to appear in court April 7.
The baby's 14-year-old mother probably would not be charged because of her age, police said. The baby's father, identified by police only as Siavichay's 27-year-old brother, was being sought. The baby has been placed in a foster home.
Sailema and Siavichay's lawyer, Kevin Faga, said the driver had "acted responsibly for the welfare of the child."
"These are good people, and this was a case of people doing their best to do what they thought was right for the child," he said. "Unfortunately, what they thought was right appears to be contrary to what the law allows."
A state safe haven law allows parents unable to care for newborns to leave them anonymously at hospitals, police stations or firehouses without risking prosecution, but it applies only to children up to 5 days old.
Sailema said he was asked to drop off the girl, Daniella, for the overwhelmed family at the firehouse because he was the only one in the country legally. He said Siavichay pleaded with him to drop off the girl. Finally, he said he relented.
"I was afraid the baby might end up abandoned in the bitter cold," Sailema told the News. "I knew the baby would be taken care of and be in good hands. There was nothing else to be done."
Some things just never cease to shock me. [img]frown.gif[/img]
i know, huh. i ran across that and it really fucked with my head... people are.... i just don't know... [img]frown.gif[/img] They need to find that 27 year old and bury him UNDER the jail....
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I don't understand what they need to discuss???A Florida mother caught on tape using a pressurized hose at a car wash to discipline her toddler daughter could end up in hot water after police meet Friday to consider filing child endangerment charges.
?She appeared [to be] a parent who thought she was disciplining her child for acting up. It?s a unique form of punishment that I don?t think anyone has ever seen,? Commander Matt Irwin of the Orange County Sheriff?s Department said Friday on TODAY. ?It?s not acceptable in my mind.?
The incident began on Feb. 24 when a white Hyundai Elantra pulled into a self-service bay at the Magical Car Wash in Orlando.
Although children often can be heard screaming and carrying on, manager Marlene Diaz told TODAY?s David Gregory that the shrieks she heard from one little girl that day were quite different and disturbing.
?The screams were more high-pitched. There were more cries of help,? Diaz said.
Diaz went to investigate the commotion but did not intervene. She did not get the full picture until later, when she reviewed her company?s security camera recordings.
?When I saw her, her face was red. You could see that she was crying, and that [by] the way she was crying that she was in distress,? Diaz said.
Summoned by Diaz, police later determined that the toddler?s mother, who is 22 and five months pregnant, pulled into the car wash for the sole purpose of hosing down her daughter ? possibly for wetting herself in the backseat of the car.
At the end of the surveillance tape of the incident, which police seized as potential evidence, the woman is seen stripping her daughter?s soaked clothes off and wrapping her up in a towel.
Tough love or child abuse?
Diaz said she struggled to imagine what infraction the child could have committed to warrant being hosed down like that, and couldn?t come up with any excuse for the mother?s action. She said it was clear that the woman was trying to teach the child some sort of lesson.
?The mother was speaking in Spanish,? Diaz said. ?She said, ?You are not going to disrespect me. You are not going to treat me bad. Don?t worry, I?m not going to hit you now. I?m just going to spray you with cold water.??
According to Diaz and police, the woman tested the water pressure on the hose before using it on the little girl. The car wash?s hoses have various settings that go up to 1,200 pounds per square inch, but police do not believe the water pressure the woman applied on the child was anywhere close to that.
After the surveillance tape was broadcast by the media, the woman turned herself in to police for questioning and denied abusing the child, who remains in her care, Irwin said.
?There are no physical injuries that our medical staff could find and document,? he said.
Child welfare officials were notified of the incident. Police plan to meet with them later Friday and decide whether to pursue child endangerment charges against the mother.
?We don?t know yet. We are going to roundtable that this morning,? Irwin said.
um yeah. no matter WHAT she did.... i think a smack on the leg or hand would be sufficient if you HAD to resort to physical measures. and for wetting herself? ummmm. she shouldn't be punished for something she can't help. i dunno. it sounds fucking horrible to me, personally. [img]frown.gif[/img] i've never heard of such a thing, and you could really hurt a child like that... if you sprayed them in the eyes with pressurized water? and freezing cold water, on top of that.. it's cruel... i can't think of any reason that would EVER be justifiable for that... they should put her ass in jail.
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