“Mommy went that way. She left us here.”
February 1, 2012
Heart....break.
The fastest and most effective way to change the economy overnight? Teach our sons and daughters to bring children into PREPARED HOMES. This heartbreaking story from The New York Daily News today demonstrates why children…shouldn’t be parents.
Dalisha Adams, 26, gave police a phone number for the woman — but it didn’t work, prosecutors said, as the mom was arraigned in Brooklyn Criminal Court.
Adams’ 8-year-old daughter (the mother has at least three children) told police she saw her mother take the younger girls into the Bayview Houses, where their paternal grandmother lives.
But the grandmother insists she had no idea 3-year-old Diani and 2-year-old Dominae were being dropped off and never saw them.
“They probably ran back out, and she didn’t even look back,” said the grandmother, Bertha Davia, whose son has been accused of domestic violence against Adams.
Good Samaritans found the sisters wandering on the street near a busy intersection, clutching diapers.
“Mommy went that way. Mommy left us here,” the older one told cops, according to prosecutors.
It took police several hours to figure out who the girls were, and Adams surrendered at the local police station while officers were hunting for her.
She was charged with child endangerment, and a judge set bond at $1,500 and issued orders of protection barring her from contacting the kids.
“She maintains her innocence,” defense lawyer Robert Riether said. “The children were not harmed.”
Adams’ older sister, Keosha Lamar, said her sister came to her Manhattan apartment on Sunday after leaving Dioni and Dominae.
“She needed a break,” Lamar said.
Adams told her Davia had agreed to watch the kids and that she handed off the children to the grandmother but did not go into her apartment because she was worried her ex-boyfriend, Shawn Cobbs, might be there.
She has an order of protection against Cobbs. He has been arrested three times since 2007 for domestic violence, but the charges were dismissed.
“Dalisha is a victim,” Lamar said.
She said her sister and 8-year-old daughter Dynasty spent the afternoon and evening at her house “resting” until a friend called and said police were looking for her.
She also denied that her sister had updated her Facebook page with a photograph of someone hoisting a champagne bottle while cops were trying to find her.
She claimed that Cobbs has access to Adams’ Facebook page and could have posted it, though she could not explain why he would have her password given their stormy relationship.
What a sad, sad story. Thank God those children weren’t hurt. It’s heartbreaking to think of them believing that their mother left them.