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Foster Mother Charged With Dumping Girl
By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN
NEW YORK (AP) - A foster mother has been charged with dumping the body of a severely disabled 8-year-old girl whose remains were left in a plastic bag amid garbage sacks lining a sidewalk, police say.
Renee Johnson, a 50-year-old retired nurse, was arrested Wednesday after the girl's remains were found. She was being held on a charge of unlawful disposal of a body.
Authorities said the girl, Stephanie Ramos, was physically and mentally underdeveloped, used a wheelchair and weighed only 28 pounds. She had cerebral palsy, diabetes and other ailments.
It was unclear when and how she died. An autopsy was pending.
Johnson reported the girl missing on Tuesday but changed her account Wednesday morning after being questioned overnight, police said.
Johnson told investigators that after Stephanie died, she put the body in a black plastic bag and dumped it next to garbage bags on a Manhattan sidewalk, detectives Chief George Brown told a news conference.
Earlier, police had said Johnson claimed she panicked after finding the girl dead, but Brown described her as unremorseful.
``She seemed indifferent in our conversations,'' he said.
Two other children living with Johnson have been placed in other homes.
Johnson had been a foster mother to disabled children for three years and had no history of abuse or neglect, said Maclean Guthrie, a spokeswoman for the Administration for Children's Services.
Johnson was a registered nurse who retired several years ago to care full time for her foster children, said Stephanie Drayton, who lives next door to Johnson in Queens. Drayton recalled seeing her neighbor carry Stephanie around in her arms.
``She nursed her to life,'' Drayton said.
Associated Press writer Donna De La Cruz contributed to this report.
By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN
NEW YORK (AP) - A foster mother has been charged with dumping the body of a severely disabled 8-year-old girl whose remains were left in a plastic bag amid garbage sacks lining a sidewalk, police say.
Renee Johnson, a 50-year-old retired nurse, was arrested Wednesday after the girl's remains were found. She was being held on a charge of unlawful disposal of a body.
Authorities said the girl, Stephanie Ramos, was physically and mentally underdeveloped, used a wheelchair and weighed only 28 pounds. She had cerebral palsy, diabetes and other ailments.
It was unclear when and how she died. An autopsy was pending.
Johnson reported the girl missing on Tuesday but changed her account Wednesday morning after being questioned overnight, police said.
Johnson told investigators that after Stephanie died, she put the body in a black plastic bag and dumped it next to garbage bags on a Manhattan sidewalk, detectives Chief George Brown told a news conference.
Earlier, police had said Johnson claimed she panicked after finding the girl dead, but Brown described her as unremorseful.
``She seemed indifferent in our conversations,'' he said.
Two other children living with Johnson have been placed in other homes.
Johnson had been a foster mother to disabled children for three years and had no history of abuse or neglect, said Maclean Guthrie, a spokeswoman for the Administration for Children's Services.
Johnson was a registered nurse who retired several years ago to care full time for her foster children, said Stephanie Drayton, who lives next door to Johnson in Queens. Drayton recalled seeing her neighbor carry Stephanie around in her arms.
``She nursed her to life,'' Drayton said.
Associated Press writer Donna De La Cruz contributed to this report.
