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Yesterday, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced that a former Administration for Children's Services worker was arrested for "falsifying public records in order to cover up her failure to perform required home visits." Stephanie Sabouni, 27, of Brooklyn, was supposed to visited children with chronic school truancy within 48 hours of being assigned cases. However, the AG's office says, "Sabouni allegedly failed to make the required visits in several of her assigned cases. To cover her tracks she made false entries into the ACS computer system reflecting that she had made home visits to several families with whom she never actually met."
Sabouni, who is charged with 14 felonies and one misdemeanor, posted the $1,500 bail and told reporters, "I didn't do anything wrong...If I were to go on national TV, I wouldn't answer every question, but I'd talk about the corruption of the agency." She added, "ACS is at fault for everything. I'm just being used." Sabouni has been teaching at a Brooklyn public school, but the Department of Education fired her upon these allegations.
According to the Post, Sabouni allegedly quit ACS in 2007 when questions about her case visits arose: "In one case, Sabouni later admitted to another employee that she had never met one of the families, the complaint said." Apparently families of the children told ACS they were never visited. Her lawyer told the Daily News, "Nobody was injured as a result of these [documents]... The children she worked with are fine... [She] went to some [homes], but not other homes," and suggested that Sabouni incriminated herself while making statements, because she didn't know she was being investigated.
Sabouni is getting married next month and had planned a honeymoon in Mexico—but the News reports that she was "ordered to hand over her passport."
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I never had a teacher that looked like her when I was going to public school. If my girlfriend looked like that I would tell her don't go into those projects unless you are well armed.
How many kids were effected by her not showing? Two? Three? But then again if you're being paid to do a job, do it or quit. So she quit.
I think the concern is because chronic truancy might be a potential sign of abuse. For instance, the little girl Nixzmary Brown, who died in 2006 after essentially a lifetime of abuse, was absent from school 46 days.
That's right on target, Jen.
That's completely unfair; it's Occam's Razor.
Any implication in the slightest that girl could've stopped Ms. Brown's death is asinine. It's her father's fault, cut and dry.
My point isn't that Sabouni could have stopped Brown's death. My point is that ACS needs to take chronic truancy seriously—while Brown's stepfather ultimately killed her, the ACS (and city) failed Brown so many times.
i'm pretty sure that's not how Occam's razor works.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
Ms Brown's father killed her but it would've been nice if the social program set up to check on her had been enacted.
No, you have to make so many assumptions: Would the father be clever enough to hide signs of abuse? Is the abuse sexual and difficult to tell? Is this girl trained in detecting such behavior? Is she trained and competent? Would the reporting of the crime exacerbated the abusive process and hastened her death?
Who knows?
What we do know is that the father was a disgusting human.
I understand your point: We have to assume a lot in order to think that any person(s) could have prevented that tragedy.
But that is just not how Occam's razor is usually applied, at least never in my experience. The simplest explanation is probably the right one. It doesn't really apply to not making assumptions though.
I will respectfully disagree. While those visits do and should perform a duty, the ultimate responsibility falls on the child's father, mother, relatives, friends- NOT the city, which is what this comment implies. I think its much too easy to blame some faceless government agency as opposed to taking responsibility for ourselves and those we love.
I agree—a family is of course most responsible. But if there are other signs of potential trouble—and the ACS is charged with investigating these cases anyway—then the ACS workers should be visiting these children.
Maybe the same cop who lent her that police hat also taught her how to falsify reports, which cops seem to excel at these days.
what a ho.
Man, I love the media paired with the internet. It's so easy to find pictures of people nowadays and pair them up with an article to make them seem completely incriminated.
"Instead of doing her job, she was at the beach! And wearing a cop's hat!"
lock her up and throw away the key.
another one of bloomberg's legacies, the Nixzmary brown case.
so funny there a ton of pics of her on Facebook in a bra no less
That Facebook account apparently was just created on Tuesday. Kind of odd, makes me think it's not really her account.
Whats going on? You can get arrested for not doing your job now?
They are kidding, no way could they do that. There isn't enough jail and prison space to house just the MTA workers. Let's not even talk about those trusted individuals at the hospitals and the motor vehicle bureau.
..and the majority of the NYPD who not only don't do their job, they do the opposite of their job.
There are some gov't jobs you can get arrested for not doing. But she's busted for felony falsification of documents and submitting false instruments. It's always the coverup that gets them sent to jail. Like Martha Stewart.
This is only a two-day story because the chick is somewhat hot and on the internet in a skimpy bikini. Or else this story would have been dead 24 hours ago.
True, if she had a catchy nickname like hipster grifter this would go for weeks but 'Public record faking, police-hat-wearing bikini brat' doesn't have the same caché.
Lock the bitch up.
That first link ("was arrested") is a mailto instead of http.
Thanks—fixed.
She definitely needs to come to my office after school -- white shirt, plaid skirt just above the knee.
People should realize to friends block their page so the media isn't able to get pictures of you.
People who have Facebook pages are idiots. Also what kind of weird ass name is "Sabouni"????? Is that a gutter Italian name or some other Gutter ethnicity that has infested Brooklyn???
I gather you have a Facebook page.
she can neglect my pre-supposed future children that we might have together if we ever had sexual relations, anytime.
she wasn't arrested for not doing her job. she was arrested for falsifying public records...
Let's see if they drop it to shut her up, cause i bet she could open a can of worms on that whole agency.
The Attorney General's office? That's the only office that could "drop it," and they were worried that she might open a can of worms they wouldn't have arrested her in the first place.
A two bagger.
BTW, nice bathing suit. Way to draw attention to your breats like a female baboon's behind.
Isn't that the whole point?
Grandma? Is that you?
what a puritan.
The real crime here is the slanted, biased way in which this story is depicted on this website. The reporter chose to use "sexy" pictures of the accused which have nothing to do with the matter at hand. The reporter could have chosen from the scene at yesterday's arrest (the perp walk), but instead stole pics off this poor woman's myspace page, taken at a time when the accused was probably off duty.
Furthermore, shouldn't we be the least bit concerned about the deadbeat parents who don't discipline their kids and make sure they are in school in the first place? Aren't these also the same parents who are wasting taxpayers' dollars by even having to fund a program such as the ACS?
Just sayin'.
"this website... instead stole pics off this poor woman's myspace page"
The pictures were taken from the linked Post article.
Sorry, correction: the first was taken from the Post, the second from the Daily News.
Given that this is your first comment on Gothamist, I'm figuring you're her attorney, a friend, or Steph herself. Welcome! Hopefully you're not her legal representation, as I wouldn't trust a lawyer that uses phrases like "Just sayin'."
aren't we wasting taxpayer funds in the AIG bailout? shouldn't they be responsible for their actions and making sure the business would survive?
i'm just sayin. and welcome.
i'd hit it.
I'd tap it. Maybe a wheelbarrow or reverse cowgirl.
If, instead of not visiting the kids, she had run them over with a car, she'd be in the clear. Apparently in this city, doing a bad job is a felony but mowing down pedestrians in your car is perfectly legal.
way to bring up a completely irrelevant topic. hot!
Thanks! Anytime I can incorporate the ongoing battle between pedestrians, cyclists and cars, I will bring it, no matter how weak (or non-existent)the connection.
irrelevant posts seem to keep felixthecat happy, so go with it.
She'd probably look after children for $150 an hour, which is double her rate on the street.
Deep fryer on the wedding registry. Artery neglect!
http://macys.weddingchannel.com/gvr/guestregistrydetail.action?retailer_registry_uid=310476777&listby=dept
I suggest you all get a look before they shut the site down because stalker types like myself are looking it up.Enjoy!
Ha! It's like watching Wheel of Fortune with this one! Any hope of a porcelain Dalmation for her "bedroom suite"?
I believe I've downloaded a film in which she "arrests" an all-female gang.
Shouldn't gothamist have a ban on posting pictures of FAT CHICKS in their bikini's....I mean who wants to see this fatcow on the beach pic?!?
the George Foreman grill will be good in the big house