Mayor Eric Adams unapologetically defended the town’s Administration for Kids’s Companies — even after a 4-year-old woman was left trapped in a Bronx home of horrors with the corpses of her mother and younger brother.
“I stand with my staff in ACS,” Adams stated Tuesday throughout his weekly information briefing at Metropolis Corridor.
Hizzoner’s vote of confidence got here after Promise Cotton, 4, was miraculously discovered alive April 18 in a putrid condo with the bug-covered our bodies of her mom Lisa Cotton, 38, and brother Nazir Millien, 8.
Youngster providers employees had knocked on the condo’s door simply in the future earlier than, however had walked away, neighbors informed The Submit.
“They didn’t do s–t,” one neighbor stated.
Cotton had a pending ACS case for alleged youngster neglect earlier than she was discovered lifeless, law-enforcement sources stated.
ACS has come beneath hearth a number of occasions throughout Adams’ mayoralty, together with when special-needs boy Brian Santiago, 10, starved to demise after his mom — who was investigated by the company and had her son quickly faraway from her care — overdosed.
One whistleblower contended to The Submit that ACS had “deprioritized investigations into youngster welfare” in favor of misguided social justice.
Adams acknowledged the most recent case was “horrific” and stated it might be investigated.
However he then appeared to argue the actual outrage is ACS not getting the credit score for his or her powerful jobs.
“They saved hundreds of lives due to the motion,” he stated.
“And you understand how many individuals arise and applaud them? When was the final time we wrote a narrative that applauds the women and men of the ACS which have saved the lives of kids?”
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