How Horrible

[wheezie]

Just heard - a newborn was found in a shoe box in a garbage infested apartment, with insects crawling all over her. How does a 19 year old live like this???

It irks me to no end to hear this when my son and daughter-in-law, who would be loving parents, haven't been able to produce a child. I would welcome an adopted child with open arms and all my love, no matter where he/she was from!!!!

[Deleted]

Wheezie, I heard about this on the TV early this morning. What a rotten thing to do to an innocent child.

[LARRY]

Her crib was a shoebox. Her playmates were roaches.

Cops removed a 4-day-old baby from a filthy Brooklyn apartment after finding the girl tucked into a Timberland shoe box, police said.

The newborn's 19-year-old mother, Jenilla Vaughn, was arrested and charged with endangering the welfare of a minor.

"This morning she came outside with the baby in a shoebox in her arms. The police escorted her out. They were surrounding her. It's sad," said Joseph Coleman, 48, a super at the Vernon Avenue Houses on Marcus Garvey Blvd. in Bedford-Stuyvesant, where Vaughn lives.

"I've been complaining for over 10 years about the condition of that apartment. The garbage is 5 feet high," Coleman said.

"The baby should have never come home. Where was social services? Why didn't they check the house?"

Not far from the shoebox holding the infant, cops found a loaded .45-caliber Hi-Point semiautomatic pistol, ammunition and a small amount of cocaine, law enforcement sources said.

"The apartment was total hell - roaches, garbage everywhere," a law enforcement source said. "There was nothing around that looked like they were caring for this baby. No food. No nothings. Its only playmate was the roaches."

Vaughn's brother, Tarik Vaughn, 22, was charged with possession of the weapon.

The little girl was born Sept. 2 at Woodhull Hospital, police sources said. She was taken back to the hospital yesterday, where she guzzled three bottles of formula, a hospital source said.

The Administration for Children's Services, which has a long history of dealing with the Vaughn family, took the infant yesterday, police sources said.

A 15-year-old who lives at Vaughn's apartment was also taken into ACS care, authorities said.

"Jenilla loves that baby. No way she's going to endanger it," said Jenilla's father, Edward Vaughn, 65. He said the baby was going to be named either Elaine or Jamalla.

"She didn't have the baby in a shoebox. The baby was in a car seat. She's a good mother and I'm a proud grandfather. She's doing the best she can."

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I wonder if the proud grandfather put his children in shoe boxes also?

[wheezie]

Maybe they should put the grandfather in a shoebox?

[LARRY]

A SHOE BOX FOR HIM IS TO GOOD. PUT HIM IN A "ROACH MOTEL" BOX

[Preacher Mike]

The baby should have never come home. Where was social services? Why didn't they check the house?"

[Joan]

What a terrible thing. As Wheezie said, there are some people dying to have their own children. My daughter-in-law is one of them.

[charlieq]

Why didn't the super call social services if he knew the baby was in a filthy apartment. It's the same old story "in the hood" no one sees, hears or knows anything.

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"The Administration for Children's Services, which has a long history of dealing with the Vaughn family, took the infant yesterday, police sources said."

So it took a media frenzy to spur them to action and actually do something???