BROOKLYN (PIX11)—
Friends, relatives and neighbors were horrified after a mother abandoned her two little girls in the midst of a Canarsie housing project has the neighborhood. Wearing parkas and Ugg boots and each clutching a fistful of diapers, family members say 26-year-old Dalisha Adams left them as an angry message for their father.Bertha Davia, the little girls' grandmother, spoke to PIX11 at the same corner where the girls were abandoned. "It's making my heart have pain," she wailed as she recounted how police came knocking at her door late Sunday night to say 4-year-old Diani and 3 year old Dominae had been ditched by their mother and were taken into protective custody.
Bertha Davia is now heartbroken, desperately trying to get her two beautiful granddaughters back. They are the children of her son Shawn Cobbs, 27. The family believes the couple had a fight and that mother Dalisha Adams, 26, left the girls as an angry message to their father, who has a son with another woman.
"I don't know why she do this to me. She knew it would hurt me," said Davia, who is petitioning, along with another daughter, to gain custody of the two girls.
The girls' uncle, Shaquils Renger, said he was frantic when he heard the news. He, like so many others, had questions no on could answer. "Leave my kids with diapers? I never thought she would do something like that."
The girls were tossed out in the midst of the Bay View Houses Sunday afternoon by their mother, who works as a security guard. Their paternal grandmother lives nearby, but 2 officers responding to a 9-1-1 call took them door to door to find family to no avail. They were taken into custody by children's services. Dalisha lives in the nearby Breukelen Houses with a third older daughter, Dynasty, who is from another relationship. She too was taken into custody after Dalisha turned herself in to police late last night.
Bertha, flanked by 4 of her sons, is now trying to get custody of the two little girls, despite having 10 children of her own.
"I spoke with the caseworker who's going to court to see if I can get rights. Me and my daughter."
Neither the family nor police have been able to find the girls' father, 27-year-old Shawn Cobbs. They suspect Adams may have reacted out of anger at the girls' father after a fight.
Cobbs' mother said, "I don't know if they broke up and he don't want to see her no more. I want my grandkids out of that place where they can be safe."
The girls were checked out at a local hospital and showed no signs of abuse, but the family already has a case file with Children's Services, which is how they tracked down the mother. She is due to be arraigned Tuesday on two counts of endangering the welfare of a child.
