A Long Island mom and her boyfriend were charged with abandoning her 6-year-old daughter Emma at a busy Queens intersection then tossed a bag with the girlâs belongings out the window before driving off.
Prosector’s say the boyfriend then called the childâs father and told him to come find her because she was âcrying like a little b—-â.
29-year-old Patrice Chambers and boyfriend Mark Pamphile are accused of forcing Emma out of the momâs white Nissan Altima. Chambers, who was driving, threw her childâs belongings in a white garbage bag and black out her driverâs side window before cruising away.
Surveillance video shows Emma ârunning in the street… attempting to pick up the items in the street. Before driving off, 28-year-old Pamphile called Emmaâs father and left a voicemail, prosecutors say.
âYou better come get your daughter,â Pamphile said. âYour daughter is in the street not sleeping nowhere.”âShe is crying like a little b—-,â he added. A crying child could be heard in the background on the voicemail, prosecutors said.
When they were later arrested by cops, a defiant Pamphile washed his hands of the girl, authorities charge. âThis kid is her kid,” he told cops, according to court papers. âThis kid is not my kid, not my problem, not my responsibility.â
Emma was scooped up by good Samaritan Mishka Peart, who saw the tot wearing a surgical mask and wandering near the intersection with her belongings in tow.
âThey drove off and left me,” Emma told Peart.
Cops located and arrested Chambers and Pamphile, both of Central Islip, L.I., a few hours later. They are charged with child abandonment, endangering the welfare of a child and reckless endangerment
When questioned, Chambers said that she tried to drop Emma off at her fatherâs home but Watson had turned her away. Watson refuted the claims and had a doorbell video to prove they never stopped by.
The two are facing up to four years in prison if convicted.