An 8-month-old Brooklyn baby under ACS supervision died of pneumonia due to malnutrition and her parents have been charged with murder, officials said today.
ACS workers had been visiting little Taniese Anderson every two weeks and had seen the child just 10 days before she died in November last year, officials said.
Her parents, Thelma Armstrong and Winston Anderson, were initially charged with manslaughter, but a grand jury upped the charge to murder saying the couple recklessness tinged with “depraved indifference to human life” caused Taniese’s death.
They were arraigned yesterday before Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Patricia DiMango, who ordered them held without bail.
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ACS workers had been visiting little Taniese Anderson every two weeks and had seen the child just 10 days before she died in November last year, officials said.
Her parents, Thelma Armstrong and Winston Anderson, were initially charged with manslaughter, but a grand jury upped the charge to murder saying the couple recklessness tinged with “depraved indifference to human life” caused Taniese’s death.
They were arraigned yesterday before Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Patricia DiMango, who ordered them held without bail.
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Last month, two ACS workers, caseworker Damon Adams and his supervisor Chereece Bell, were indicted for criminally negligent homicide in the death of 4-year-old Marchella Pierce who weighed just 18 pounds when she died.
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