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9 News
23-07-2025
- 9 News
Man in custody after baby girl thrown down garbage chute in New York
Your web browser is no longer supported. To improve your experience update it here A one-year-old girl is recovering after being thrown down a garbage chute on Staten Island, New York on Monday, police said. Investigators say the child's father called 911 about 3.15pm local time and officers quickly responded to an apartment building at 195 Steuben Street near Weser Avenue in the Park Hill section of the borough. Police found the little girl with abrasions to the torso. A one-year-old girl is recovering after being thrown down a garbage chute on Staten Island on Monday, police said. (CNN) She was rushed to Richmond University Hospital in stable condition and is expected to recover. Police said a 39-year-old man was taken into custody. Police sources say he is the one-year-old's uncle. He has not been charged. An NYPD officer was seen on the third floor standing in front of the garbage chute and just down the hall was the family's apartment with the door open. Neighbour Milton Franklin told CBS News New York the family has lived in the building for a while. "I'm lost for words right now because I'm just ... a baby down a garbage chute is just ... it's absolutely mindboggling," Franklin said. He said he was coming home from work on Monday afternoon when he saw several emergency crews outside the building and a distraught woman carrying a child to an ambulance. "I'm going to pray that God wraps his arms around this family and they get through this situation," Franklin said. "It makes me feel so depressed. It makes me feel bad about who can do a thing like that," neighbour Froylan Zapata added. New York USA World crime police CONTACT US Auto news: Why Australians are still driving around without insurance.
Daily Mirror
22-07-2025
- Daily Mirror
One-year-old girl 'thrown down rubbish chute of three-storey building' by uncle
Authorities received a distressing call on Monday afternoon after reports of a 39-year-old man allegedly throwing the baby down a chute in New York An uncle is accused of horrifically throwing his 1-year-old niece down a third-floor rubbish chute, according to police. Authorities received a distressing call on Monday afternoon after reports of a 39-year-old man allegedly throwing the baby girl down an apartment rubbish chute in New York. Police rushed to the scene and discovered the child, who suffered a scratch to her torso, and she was rushed to hospital. She remains in a stable condition. Milton Franklin, who lives on the same floor as the uncle, said he came home to see the mum and crying baby go into the ambulance. "I'm lost for words right now because I'm just ... a baby down a garbage chute is just ... it's absolutely mindboggling," Franklin said. "I'm hurt. I'm just going to pray that God wraps his arms around his family and that they get through the situation." Keisha Lacey, another resident, added: "That's sad. To put a baby down to the garbage. I mean, mental illness is... you have to be able to do something like that. Nobody in their right state of mind would do something like that to a child." "It makes me feel so depressed. It makes me feel bad about who can do a thing like that," neighbour Froylan Zapata added. The uncle was taken into custody and questioned by officers. There have been no arrests. The shocking incident comes after a daughter left her elderly mum to rot in bed for "at least a year" so she could run her true crime Facebook page. Elizabeth Drake, 40, was living with her 72-year-old mother when police responded to a call at their Wisconsin home after a delivery driver overheard the elderly woman "yelling for help." Cops arrived at the house in December 2023 and approached Drake at the front door, who claimed her mum was fine. When an officer said they would need to check on her, Drake told them her mum's room was a bit "messy". After entering the home, the officer said the cluttered home had a "very obnoxious smell" that was "animal, garbage, urine, and faeces." There were also "bugs all over the home." According to the complaint, items discovered also included "soiled diapers, garbage, clothes, pop cans and other miscellaneous items". The mum confessed to police that her daughter was "holding her prisoner and she wanted to get out of the house". She told police that after breaking her leg the year before, Drake was "supposed to take care of her" but she had not been moved from the bed or used the bathroom for "at least a year". After being admitted to hospital, nurses said the mother had bed sores on her buttocks, back, legs and stomach. Drake agreed the home was in a "terrible condition" but claimed her mum "chose" to live like that. Drake was sentenced to a year in prison and ordered not to have any contact with her mother. She was also placed on extended supervision for three years.
