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SYRACUSE, N.Y. A Syracuse mother who dropped off her daughter at a birthday party and never returned has been charged with child abandonment.
Police say 28-year-old Quosenna Robinson left 4-year-old Heniyah Williams at the party on May 27th.
The next day, Robinson's apartment was empty. The birthday family decided to keep the girl.
Police got involved yesterday when the girl was reported missing when she wandered away. She was upset and asking for her mother.
Police found Robinson at her new home, and she told them she'd left at note at her old place with the new address.
Police said the note was not found.
[Boy, 6, left behind after party; family realizes it next morning
By John Lantigua, Eliot Kleinberg
Palm Beach Post Staff Writers
Monday, June 05, 2006Michael James Emanuel Jr. was the center of attention Saturday night, celebrating his sixth birthday at a Chuck E. Cheese's west of Boca Raton.
But by the end of the evening, the boy was accidentally left behind, and relatives failed to notice he was missing until the next morning, Palm Beach County sheriff's deputies said. His mother blamed a communications mix-up.
A hearing is set for today at the Broward County office of the Florida Department of Children and Families to determine whether Lacqetta Monroe, 23, of Pompano Beach, the boy's mother, should be charged with a crime. Sheriff's investigator Robert Falbe said Sunday he did not expect that to happen. He also said Monroe had no previous record with the DCF for child neglect.
Monroe could not be reached for comment. Michael's grandmother, Valerie Monroe, declined to comment.
About a dozen children and about a half-dozen adults gathered with Michael on Saturday at the Chuck E. Cheese's at State Road 7 and Glades Road, Falbe said.
About 8 p.m., as the party was wrapping up, the children piled into three vehicles and the adults stood talking in the parking lot for about a half-hour. One adult relative later told deputies he was sure he had seen Michael in his mother's van, but as the adults chatted, the boy apparently got out and returned to the restaurant's play area, Falbe said.
When Lacqetta Monroe got to the Deerfield Beach home of her mother, she unloaded some children and took some older ones to a skating rink. She said later she believed Michael had been among those she'd dropped off and had assumed he would spend the night with his grandmother.
Restaurant employees realized about 10 p.m. Saturday that the boy was alone and called deputies and the DCF, Falbe said. The employees told authorities Michael knew his name and age but not his telephone number or his mother's name. The DCF kept the boy in a shelter overnight.
On Sunday morning, it became clear to Michael's relatives that he was not with any of the adults, Falbe said. Meanwhile, he said, investigators had checked birth records, found the boy's name and his mother's name and made contact.
Michael had been in a potentially "very dangerous" situation, Falbe said.
"State Road 7 is a very busy thoroughfare," he said. "If he had wandered that way, it might have turned out badly, or he might have gotten abducted."
Police say 28-year-old Quosenna Robinson left 4-year-old Heniyah Williams at the party on May 27th.
The next day, Robinson's apartment was empty. The birthday family decided to keep the girl.
Police got involved yesterday when the girl was reported missing when she wandered away. She was upset and asking for her mother.
Police found Robinson at her new home, and she told them she'd left at note at her old place with the new address.
Police said the note was not found.
[Boy, 6, left behind after party; family realizes it next morning
By John Lantigua, Eliot Kleinberg
Palm Beach Post Staff Writers
Monday, June 05, 2006Michael James Emanuel Jr. was the center of attention Saturday night, celebrating his sixth birthday at a Chuck E. Cheese's west of Boca Raton.
But by the end of the evening, the boy was accidentally left behind, and relatives failed to notice he was missing until the next morning, Palm Beach County sheriff's deputies said. His mother blamed a communications mix-up.
A hearing is set for today at the Broward County office of the Florida Department of Children and Families to determine whether Lacqetta Monroe, 23, of Pompano Beach, the boy's mother, should be charged with a crime. Sheriff's investigator Robert Falbe said Sunday he did not expect that to happen. He also said Monroe had no previous record with the DCF for child neglect.
Monroe could not be reached for comment. Michael's grandmother, Valerie Monroe, declined to comment.
About a dozen children and about a half-dozen adults gathered with Michael on Saturday at the Chuck E. Cheese's at State Road 7 and Glades Road, Falbe said.
About 8 p.m., as the party was wrapping up, the children piled into three vehicles and the adults stood talking in the parking lot for about a half-hour. One adult relative later told deputies he was sure he had seen Michael in his mother's van, but as the adults chatted, the boy apparently got out and returned to the restaurant's play area, Falbe said.
When Lacqetta Monroe got to the Deerfield Beach home of her mother, she unloaded some children and took some older ones to a skating rink. She said later she believed Michael had been among those she'd dropped off and had assumed he would spend the night with his grandmother.
Restaurant employees realized about 10 p.m. Saturday that the boy was alone and called deputies and the DCF, Falbe said. The employees told authorities Michael knew his name and age but not his telephone number or his mother's name. The DCF kept the boy in a shelter overnight.
On Sunday morning, it became clear to Michael's relatives that he was not with any of the adults, Falbe said. Meanwhile, he said, investigators had checked birth records, found the boy's name and his mother's name and made contact.
Michael had been in a potentially "very dangerous" situation, Falbe said.
"State Road 7 is a very busy thoroughfare," he said. "If he had wandered that way, it might have turned out badly, or he might have gotten abducted."
Also- our CEC stamps everyone that comes in together with the same # or symbol and everyone has to leave at the same time to be accounted for.
. Local news is reporting the mom failed to show up in court today, so there is a warrant for her arrest - big surprise!!!! sad.
