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A Brooklyn mother was charged yesterday in the death of her 1-year-old son who apparently drowned in a hot-water bath - 18 months after she pleaded guilty in the bathtub scalding of her older son.
Last night, a cousin of the woman said she had raised both boys until last year when - over her fierce objections - the children were returned to their troubled 25-year-old mother.
Bond lashed out at the Administration for Children's Services, which she said returned then-4-month-old Dahquay and his badly burned older brother Tramel to their mother, Tracina (Tracy) Vaughn, last November.
"They returned those children regardless of the fact that Tracy was not ready to raise them," Bond said.
"There has been incident after incident with Tracy ...ACS knew and did nothing. It's apparent they don't value life."
"I spoke with caseworkers several times and they did nothing to protect those children," she charged.
An ACS spokeswoman would not say if the agency had been monitoring Vaughn and her two children, who lived in a Bedford-Stuyvesant basement flat.
But police said there was an active ACS file on the family.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/363598p-309668c.html
Last night, a cousin of the woman said she had raised both boys until last year when - over her fierce objections - the children were returned to their troubled 25-year-old mother.
Bond lashed out at the Administration for Children's Services, which she said returned then-4-month-old Dahquay and his badly burned older brother Tramel to their mother, Tracina (Tracy) Vaughn, last November.
"They returned those children regardless of the fact that Tracy was not ready to raise them," Bond said.
"There has been incident after incident with Tracy ...ACS knew and did nothing. It's apparent they don't value life."
"I spoke with caseworkers several times and they did nothing to protect those children," she charged.
An ACS spokeswoman would not say if the agency had been monitoring Vaughn and her two children, who lived in a Bedford-Stuyvesant basement flat.
But police said there was an active ACS file on the family.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/363598p-309668c.html