Dalisha Adams was arrested for abandoning her children-WHY?

'Mommy left us on the sidewalk and drove away': Mother arrested for leaving kids aged 3 and 5 on street with just extra diapers

• Mother allegedly heard shouting at kids: "I’ll punch you in the f***ing face'
• Also heard shouting 'I'm gonna get you out of here' hours before they were abandoned
• Charged with two counts of endangering the welfare of a minor

By Rachel Quigley


A mother has been arrested after she abandoned her two daughters aged just three and five on the street with only a few extra diapers.
Dalisha Adams, 26, from Brooklyn, was picked up by police on Sunday night after leaving her children in the cold near housing projects in Brooklyn around 3pm.
Two women came across them and stayed with the young girls until police arrived. 

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Abandoned: Domini, five, left, and her younger sister Dioni, three, said their mom Dalisha, dropped them near a busy intersection in Brooklyn and drove off

Mother: Dalisha Adams was arrested last night for abandoning her children

Though they were bundled up warm wearing hooded down coats and Ugg boots, they seemed shaken up and very confused as to why they were abandoned near Bayview Housing Projects on Shore Parkway in Brooklyn, according to the New York Daily News.
The Bay View Houses are about a mile-and-a-half from the Breukelen Houses, where Adams lives with her daughters and their eight-year-old sister, who was with relatives when the incident happened.
A neighbour of the mother claims she often heard Adams screaming at her children.
The woman, who did not want to be identified, told the New York Daily News: 'She was always yelling at the kids, "Shut the f*** up".

'One day, I heard her curse out the little baby, "I’ll punch you in the f***ing face.'
She also said she heard more shouting on Sunday shortly before the girls were abandoned.
'A kid was crying. She was saying, "Stop crying, shut the f*** up. I'm gonna get you out of here",' she said.
Other neighbours said the children were always well dressed and clean but a resident of the housing project they lived at told the Daily News she would often shout and curse at them and pull on their arms.

Abandoned: The children were left near this busy intersection in Shore Parkway, Brooklyn

Five-year-old Domini told the Daily News her younger sister was called Dioni and they lived in a blue house with flowers in front of it on 53rd street, but she did not know which borough of New York it was.

'A kid was crying. She was saying, "Stop crying, shut the f*** up. I'm gonna get you out of here"'

She also said her mother's name was Dalisha and she drove a white car.
The older daughter, who said her name was Domini, told a photographer: 'Mommy just left us on the sidewalk and drove away.'
The children showed no signs of physical abuse but were taken to Brookdale University Hospital for observation.
Just after 10pm on Sunday night, police arrived at Adams' house and opened the door with a crow bar, but she was not at home.
Adams was arrested after police matched the girls' identity with photo records from Administration for Children’s Services, where the children are currently in custody.
Adams was charged with two counts of endangering the welfare of a minor, police said.
Police were alerted to the the abandoned children by an elderly couple who found them standing at a busy intersection with the diapers in their arms as cars zoomed by them.

Rescue: A good samaritan found the children near Bayview Housing Projects on Shore Parkway in Brooklyn, with their extra diapers and called police

Heroes: Police Officers Billy Morales and his partner Ed Centeno made sure they were safe after taking them from the two elderly woman who found them

The girls’ grandmother, Bertha Davia, said it was all a misunderstanding and is asking ACS to place them in her care.

Grandmother: Bertha Davia said she thinks it has all been a misunderstanding and Dalisha was supposed to leave the girls with her

The 52-year-old told Eyewitness News that she lives in the complex next to where the children were left and the mother must have intended to leave her children in her care.
She said she is furious her daughter never told her the children were coming and only realized what had happened when she saw their picture on the news.
'She left them on the corner here. I live all the way over there. And they was roaming the hallways and all that. Why would she do that to my grandkids? For what reason?'
Although she is angry over the incident, she said she does not believe the two girls were abandoned on a street corner and it was just a big misunderstanding.
Michelle Davis, 43, from Brooklyn, told the Daily News: 'They were wandering up and down the sidewalk for a while, just playing by themselves.
'It’s horrible. How could you leave your own children out there? They’re babies and you just leave them out there like that?'
The police said both children were in good condition after being checked over in hospital and were now in the care of the ACS, who did not immediately respond to an inquiry.

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Why were these children left by their mother?

Young Girls Left On Street In Brooklyn: MyFoxNY.com

NEW YORK (WABC) -- A Brooklyn mother was arrested after police say she abandoned her young daughters on a Canarsie street Sunday afternoon.

Dalisha Adams, 26, was charged with two counts of endangering the welfare of a child.
Adams was arrested hours after authorities matched her photo and pictures of the girls from ACS.
 She allegedly abandoned her two children, ages 2 and 3, in front of the Bay View Houses on Shore Parkway just before 3 p.m. They were found bundled up in winter clothes and carrying a number of disposable diapers.
The children, who did not live there, could only tell detectives Adams' first name.
They were checked out at Brookdale University Hospital and then placed in the custody of ACS.
The children's paternal grandmother, 52-year-old Bertha Davia, spoke with Eyewitness News reporter NJ Burkett and disputed the police account. She lives in the complex, next door to where the children were found. She says the mother clearly intended to leave the kids with her, but she is furious because she was never notified of their arrival. She said she had no idea until she saw pictures of them in the news media.
"She left them on the corner here," she said. "I live all the way over there. And they was roaming the hallways and all that. Why would she do that to my grandkids? For what reason?"
Although she is angry at the mother, she says the kids were not abandoned on some random streetcorner. This case, she said, may be more of a misunderstanding than anything else.
Davia went to ACS and has asked that the children be placed in her care indefinitely.
"I hope the mother never gets them back, because you don't deserve them," she said. "You don't take your kids and leave them on no street. Two and three years old, c'mon, that's wrong."
Authorities say the children are healthy and showed no signs of abuse.