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Infant Found In Bronx Parking Lot By Street Vendor
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Jaya Saxena
Published May 26, 2010
Modified May 26, 2010
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Police have charged parents Karill Savery, 30, and Leonardo Reyes, 34, with endangering the welfare of a child after they left their 8-month-old son in a parking lot on East 161st Street in the Bronx yesterday. Ezra Isiah Reyes, left in a stroller, was spotted by sunglass vendors sitting outside the courthouse, who brought him into the DA's office. Vendor Lorenzo Carse told the Daily News, "I'm a father. How could somebody leave their child like that?" Actually, they simply forgot.
Savery and Reyes had both made an appearance at the Bronx Family Court, and were allegedly arguing in the parking lot. As they left, each assumed the other had taken the child. One police source said, "It was just parental confusion," but that confusion left Ezra in the sun for what seems to be hours. He was taken to Lincoln Hospital, where they found he was dehydrated but not otherwise hurt, and then released into the care of Administration for Children's Services. The sunglass vendor's wife said of Savery, "She doesn't deserve to be called a mother."
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