Infant Found In Bronx Parking Lot By Street Vendor

Police have charged parents Karill Savery, 30, and Leonardo Reyes, 34, with endangering the welfare of a child after they left their 8-month-old son in a parking lot on East 161st Street in the Bronx yesterday. Ezra Isiah Reyes, left in a stroller, was spotted by sunglass vendors sitting outside the courthouse, who brought him into the DA's office. Vendor Lorenzo Carse told the Daily News, "I'm a father. How could somebody leave their child like that?" Actually, they simply forgot.

Savery and Reyes had both made an appearance at the Bronx Family Court, and were allegedly arguing in the parking lot. As they left, each assumed the other had taken the child. One police source said, "It was just parental confusion," but that confusion left Ezra in the sun for what seems to be hours. He was taken to Lincoln Hospital, where they found he was dehydrated but not otherwise hurt, and then released into the care of Administration for Children's Services. The sunglass vendor's wife said of Savery, "She doesn't deserve to be called a mother."

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By Jaya Saxena in News on May 26, 2010 9:43 AM

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Rocknrope

Could have been worse - they could have left the baby in a car, which I read happens more often that you think.

Politburo

An article on that subject won a Pulitzer this year.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/27/AR2009022701549.html

Rocknrope

Yep, that's the article to which I was referring. Just brutal.

eyekantspel

With this case and the attempted Times Square bomb, I'm starting to think we'd be better off replacing some portion of our police department with street vendors; they seem to be our real first line of defense.

Ritchie

"parental confusion"???? Unless these idiots turned away from the baby in the same exact microsecond, how is it even possible that one of them didn't see that the poor baby was there. One more case of stupid adult drama trumping responsible parenting. And in the case of the Dutch couple--whether or not you agree with what they did, they knew where their child was.

HughGass

Just a prom night dumpster baby.

farleft

"She doesn't deserve to be called a mother."

Why blame just the mother? What about the father? Shouldn't he "not be called a father" also?

schadenfreudian mensch

Maybe he wasn't the father of the kid knowing the Bronx for what it is.

John Clavis

That guy succeeded in propagating his genes.

Kitty Graves

Uhm, this is the biggest bunch of bullshit I have ever heard. I can see thinking the other parent had a child - but how the fuck could it possibly take HOURS to realize the kid is not there??? Something like that is realized in minutes if not seconds.

Thespis

Because you don't see the other parent for several hours -- so you think the kid is safe and sound with the other person, whereever they are.

Not saying that these two geniuses are blameless -- only that their behavior is plausible (for an idiot).

KaosDG

Makes you wonder why they were at family court to begin with.

Morons.

Jen Chung

Remember the Dutch couple who left their baby in a stroller outside the Dallas BBQ?

schadenfreudian mensch

Yea but in that case it was because I believe the custom in Amsterdam or so they said. They were very aware the kid was outside. Granted as tourist or whatever the fuck they were they should adjust to the custom of whatever host country they were in instead of just imposing their shit on the rest of us, but that's just me.

Jen Chung

Yeah, I know—it's just one of my favorite NYC stories. Also, a friend married a Dutch man and whenever they have friends from Amsterdam/Holland visit, the Dutch friends still ask about the stroller case and can't believe that the mother was arrested here.

dutchmom

I hate it when people act like Europe is one big country! get your facts straight! It was a couple from Denmark, which is miles away from the Netherlands where DUTCH people live. Amsterdam therefore, does nog lie in Denmark. That said, it is also a DANISH custum to leave your children outside, mainly because it is a relatively safe country.

In the Netherlands however, you will be arrested for leaving your child alone. It is not custumary and definitely against the law. I am Dutch and I do not like uniformed people to give the Dutch a bad name.