"Baby Drowns in Bucket of Vomit"

[Eve]

One of those news stories that makes you sit there aghast, jaw dropped, and realize that some people actually live in John Waters movies:

A Harlem mother was arrested yesterday after her 3-month-old daughter accidentally drowned in a bucket of the mother’s vomit early Saturday morning, the police said. The mother, Savarin Dejesus, 18, went out last Friday night, leaving her daughter, Niah Ford, in the care of a fellow resident of Fox House, a group home on East 117th Street, according to the police. When Ms. Dejesus returned, she retrieved the baby from the sitter and went to her room, feeling sick. She set a bucket next to her bed before she went to sleep with the baby in her arms, the police said.

During the night the woman vomited into the bucket, and sometime later the baby rolled off the bed and into the bucket, the police said. The mother did not discover the baby’s condition until she woke the next afternoon about 2:30 p.m. Darlene Fermin, 20, who has friends who live at the shelter, said of the baby, “She didn’t look neglected or anything. She always looked real nice and cute and dressed up for the seasons.” [note: the baby was three months old! What seasons?] Christian Medina, 20, who knows Ms. Dejesus from the neighborhood, said, “I guess it was just a big mistake, a stupid mistake, a big, big mistake.”

[Eve]

Due to TokyoPlayer’s sad news, I’m requesting that this be closed.

[SkipMagic]

Closed at the request of the OP.