Mother abandons daughter, 6, at New York intersection because she was ‘crying like a b***h’
A MOTHER and her boyfriend allegedly abandoned the woman’s six-year-old daughter at a busy intersection because she was “crying like a b***h”.
Patrice Chambers, 29, and Mark Pamphile, 28, are accused of forcing little Emma out of the mom’s white Nissan Altima at around 11:30am on Monday in New York City.
Chambers, who was driving the car in Queens, allegedly threw her daughter’s belongings, stuffed in a white garbage bag and a black reusable bag, out of the driver’s side window before speeding off.
Surveillance video recovered by police show little Emma, “running in the street…attempting to pick up the items in the street,” according to a shocking criminal complaint obtained by the Daily News.
Before leaving, Pamphile called Emma’s father, Kermit Watson, and left a message telling him to come find her because she was “crying like a little b***h,” the complaint said.
“You better come get your daughter. Your daughter is in the street not sleeping nowhere,” said Pamphile, according to court docs.
“She is crying like a little b***h,” he added.
A crying child could be heard in the background on the voicemail, prosecutors said.
When the callous parents were later arrested by cops, Pamphile refused to take responsibility for the little girl, authorities said.
“This kid is her kid,” he told cops, according to court papers.
“This kid is not my kid, not my problem, not my responsibility.”
Emma was found by Mishka Peart, who spotted the child wearing a surgical mask while wandering near the intersection carrying her belongings.
“They drove off and left me,” Emma said when Peart asked the little girl where her parents were.
“How does this happen?” Peart told the newspaper on Tuesday.
“How is it that this woman has a daughter and leaves her like this?”
The good samaritan drove Emma to a nearby park, where she found two school safety agents and informed them about what happened.
The agents then called officers from the 105th Precinct, prompting an investigation.
Cops arrested Chambers and Pamphile in Long Island, New York, a few hours later.
They face charges of child abandonment, endangering the welfare of a child, and reckless endangerment.
When questioned by cops, Chambers said she tried to drop Emma off at her father’s home, but he had turned her away.
Watson denied the claims and said he had a doorbell video to prove she and Pamphile never showed up.
Chambers admitted to abandoning her child and said she was “frustrated” after detectives showed her surveillance video from the intersection, prosecutors said.
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A Queens Criminal Court judge ordered the couple released without bail after their arraignment hearing late Tuesday.
Both face up to four years in prison if convicted.
Emma was given to child welfare services in Suffolk County and will be placed with a relative, officials told the Daily News.