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8-Year-Old Who Froze To Death Inside Center Moriches Garage Failed By CPS, Grand Jury Finds 8-Year-Old Who Froze To Death Inside Center Moriches Garage Failed By CPS, Grand Jury Finds
8-Year-Old Who Froze To Death Inside Center Moriches Garage Failed By CPS, Grand Jury Finds A scathing grand jury report found that Child Protective Services (CPS) workers in New York had ample opportunities to save an 8-year-old boy whose years of abuse at the hands of his ex-NYPD officer father culminated in him freezing to death inside a garage. The 71-page report, made public Thursday, April 4, found that Suffolk County CPS received at least 10 reports of abuse or neglect from Thomas Valva’s teachers in the two years leading up to his January 2020 death inside the garage of his Center Moriches home. Valva died of hypothermia after he and his 10-year-old brother Anthony w…

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by Michael Mashburn
Police & Fire
Woman Leaves 10-Month-Old In Car Outside Long Island Grocery Store: Police Woman Leaves 10-Month-Old In Car Outside Long Island Grocery Store: Police
Woman Leaves 10-Month-Old In Car Outside Long Island Grocery Store: Police A Long Island woman has been arrested after she left her baby inside a car, police said. It happened on Monday, Oct. 30 in Franklin Square, according to Nassau County Police. At approximately 2:45 p.m., 25-year-old Amber-Rose Danahy of West Hempstead parked her car behind the Lidl grocery store, located at 969 Dogwood Avenue. A witness later noticed her 10-month-old son crying in the back seat of the empty car. Police rescued the child with a lockout kit; an investigation later determined that Danahy was responsible for leaving the baby unattended. No injuries were reported, and the …

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by Sophie Grieser
Police & Fire
Mother Charged After Daughter Found Unresponsive In Melville Hotel Pool Mother Charged After Daughter Found Unresponsive In Melville Hotel Pool
Mother Charged After Daughter Found Unresponsive In Melville Hotel Pool The mother of a 7-year-old girl found unresponsive in a hotel pool on Long Island last year has been charged with manslaughter. Katlyn Pineda, of Queens, was found unresponsive in Suffolk County in the Marriott Melville pool on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022, and remained in a coma until she died from her injuries on Monday, May 1, said the Suffolk County Police. Earlier report: Girl Found Unresponsive At Hotel Pool In Suffolk County Following an investigation by Suffolk County Police Homicide Squad detectives, Pineda’s mother, Erica Baez, was arrested on Monday, May 15 a…

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by Kathy Reakes
Police & Fire
Woman Nabbed For Leaving Infant In Car At Long Island Walmart, Police Say Woman Nabbed For Leaving Infant In Car At Long Island Walmart, Police Say
Woman Nabbed For Leaving Infant In Car At Long Island Walmart, Police Say A woman was arrested on Long Island after allegedly leaving her 4-month-old child in a car for more than an hour as she shopped in a Walmart. Treisha Clarke, age 41, of Queens, was arrested around 5:25 p.m., Monday, Sept. 12, in Valley Stream. The infant was found around 4:20 p.m. when Nassau County Police received a call from a witness who spotted the child inside a parked vehicle at the Walmart on Green Acres Road West, police said. When police arrived they found the baby in the rear seat of a vehicle that was locked and running, police said. Officers used a lockout kit to open the…

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by Kathy Reakes
Police & Fire
Alert Issued For Man Wanted In Suffolk County For Child Neglect Alert Issued For Man Wanted In Suffolk County For Child Neglect
Alert Issued For Man Wanted In Suffolk County For Child Neglect Recognize him? An alert has been issued by police investigators on Long Island as they seek the public's assistance in tracking down a wanted man. The Suffolk County Sheriff applied for and received a warrant for area resident Seti Robinson, Sr., whose last known addresses were in the Mastic and Shirley areas. Police said that Robinson is wanted out of Suffolk County Family Court for child neglect, and out of the Suffolk County Court for felony aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle. The warrant was granted on Friday, Aug. 6.  According to investigators, Robinson, age 27…

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by Zak Failla
Police & Fire
Parents Accused Of Leaving 1-Year-Old In Hot SUV At Long Island Mall Parking Lot Parents Accused Of Leaving 1-Year-Old In Hot SUV At Long Island Mall Parking Lot
Parents Accused Of Leaving 1-Year-Old In Hot SUV At Long Island Mall Parking Lot Police arrested a couple for allegedly leaving their baby in a hot vehicle while they went shopping at a Long Island mall. The man and woman were charged with reckless endangerment and endangering the welfare of a child around 2:30 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 17 at the Americana Manhasset Mall, police said. According to Nassau County Police detectives, Jingcai Zhou, age 34, and Lu Lu, age 28,  from Flushing, Queens, parked their 2019 Mercedes Benz in a parking lot located at 2046 Northern Blvd.  The couple’s 1-year-old boy was sleeping in a rear child seat when the parents left him …

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by Kathy Reakes
Police & Fire
Suffolk Woman Left Baby Alone In Running Car While At DMV, Police Say Suffolk Woman Left Baby Alone In Running Car While At DMV, Police Say
Suffolk Woman Left Baby Alone In Running Car While At DMV, Police Say A 25-year-old woman was arrested on Long Island after leaving a child alone in an unlocked, running vehicle while she went to the Department of Motor Vehicles, police said. Officers were called to the Carmens Plaza parking lot in Massapequa shortly before 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 10, when a passerby reported that there was a child who had been left alone in a running car. Police said that upon arrival, officers located a 2-year-old child asleep in the back of an unlocked vehicle with the air conditioning on. The child was evaluated by a Nassau County Police Department medic, and was u…

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by Zak Failla
Lifestyle
Mom Talks About Twins' Hot-Car Deaths With Dr. Phil Mom Talks About Twins' Hot-Car Deaths With Dr. Phil
Mom Talks About Twins' Hot-Car Deaths With Dr. Phil For the first time since her 1-year-old twins died in a hot car in July, the Hudson Valley mother of the infants tells her tragic story on national TV. Rockland resident Marissa Rodriguez, 37, of New City, will appear on the Dr. Phil show, at 3 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 14, on WCBS-TV Channel 2. The program will air again at 8 p.m. on WLNY-TV 10/55. The twins, Phoneix and Luna, died after their father, Juan Rodriguez, drove to his job on July 26, at the Veterans Administration hospital in the Bronx, and forgot to drop the infants off at their daycare in Yonkers. Rodriguez, 39, and an Iraq War …

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by Kathy Reakes