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Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'foster'

July 15, 2008

Last year, it was discovered that Judith Leekin adopted 11 foster children from NY adoption agencies using aliases, taking over $1 million while abusing and starving them. Today, Leekin will be sentenced, and lawyers representing the children hope she'll be be given a long sentence. The lawyers recounted a litany of abuses--siblings described pulling the decaying teeth of one profoundly retarded and autistic sibling (Leekin received more subsidies for special needs children) because they had......

Continue Reading "Judge to Sentence Woman in Adoption Scam-and-Abuse Case"

June 7, 2008

A three-year-old boy was removed from a building in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn Friday afternoon. Despite efforts by EMS workers, the toddler was declared dead at Interfaith Hospital in Brooklyn. The cause of death has yet to be determined, but the young boy displayed evidence of being sexually assaulted and exhibited cigarette burns on his body. Police told neighbors that Kyle may have suffered a broken pelvis. The Daily News reports that the boy......

Continue Reading "Boy Dies Horribly in Supposedly Safer Environment"

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