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• Mom leaves kids in a Jersey parking lot

  This is about as messed up a story as you'll read all week (hopefully). A woman left her children – a 2 year old and a 7 month old – in a taxi at 2:30am this morning. She went into a Wawa convenience store (Wawa!) in North Brunswick, NJ, telling the driver she would be right back. Then she drove off with two guys she met inside the store. Read More... Posted Sep 15 2008, 08:30 AM by Brett Singer with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: mother, mom, New Jersey, wtf, taxi, Brett Singer, wawa, insanely bad parenting

• Taxi Baby Driver Gets Probation

  The livery cab driver who brought a little girl to a firehouse isn't going to do any jail time. Klever Sailema and his girlfriend, Maria Siavichay, each received 6 months probation for conspiring with baby Daniella's father, Carlos Rodas, to bring the little girl to a New York City firehouse. Read More... Posted Apr 15 2008, 07:00 PM by Brett Singer with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: news, adoption, babies, deadbeat dads, lying, good samaritans, firefighters, taxi, safe haven law, taxi baby, Brett Singer

• More Taxi Baby News

  Here's an update on the Taxi Baby story: both baby Daniella and her mother (who is 14) are now in foster care in Maryland, where the mother is originally from. The father, Carlos Rodas, is still at large. Klever Sailema, the livery cab driver who dropped the baby at a firehouse, has been charged with "falsely reporting an incident and criminal facilitation." Maria Siavichay, Rodas' sister and Sailema's girlfriend, received a charge of "criminal facilitation." Interesting side note... Read More... Posted Mar 11 2008, 10:45 AM by Brett Singer with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: news, adoption, babies, deadbeat dads, lying, good samaritans, firefighters, taxi, safe haven law, taxi baby

• Taxi Baby Update

  The Daily News reports that Carlos Rodas, the father of "Taxi Baby" Daniella, is still at-large, despite an earlier story that said he wanted to turn himself in. Apparently Rodas is concerned that he might be charged with statutory rape, since he is 27 and the little girl's mother is 14. 14??!!??!? As we used to say in the old country...   Read More... Posted Mar 05 2008, 09:38 AM by Brett Singer with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: news, adoption, babies, deadbeat dads, lying, good samaritans, firefighters, taxi, safe haven law, taxi baby

• Taxi Baby: The Saga Continues

  Not surprisingly, the baby-left-in-a-taxi story isn't going away. AMNY quotes several people who seem to feel that the guy doesn't deserve jail time. Kevin Faga, the cabbie's lawyer, seems to have taken our advice to read the Safe Haven Law, and has changed the gist of his defense from "he didn't break the law" to "he was just trying to do the right thing." Here's the problem... Read More... Posted Mar 03 2008, 11:00 AM by Brett Singer with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: news, adoption, babies, deadbeat dads, good samaritans, firefighters, good deeds, taxi

• Hero Taxi Driver? Not So Much

  Thanks to commenter BettyWu who pointed out that the "hero cabbie" was anything but, since it turns out the whole story was made up... Read More... Posted Mar 02 2008, 02:31 PM by Brett Singer with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: news, adoption, babies, deadbeat dads, lying, good samaritans, firefighters, taxi, safe haven law

• Baby Left in Taxi

  A man gets into a cab in Queens, then tells the driver to stop so he can use a payphone. He jogs across the street and gets into another cab. Ditching the fare? Nope, his kid. 45 year-old driver Klever Sailema looked in the backseat...   Read More... Posted Feb 29 2008, 12:00 PM by Brett Singer with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: news, adoption, babies, deadbeat dads, good samaritans, firefighters, good deeds, taxi