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Sonia Cintron said she had a loving home waiting for her granddaughter if only child welfare workers had called.
But they failed to remove the 21-month-old from her hellish Staten Island home and she was allegedly brutally beaten by her mother's bad-news boyfriend.
Early this morning, Hailey Gonzalez was to be taken off life support so doctors at Richmond University Medical Center on Staten Island could remove her heart in order to donate it to another little girl, said Cintron's husband, Gilbert Reyes.
"We've said our goodbyes," he said.
Cintron believes hazel-eyed Hailey is the latest child to fall through the cracks of the Administration for Children's Services, which was monitoring her case.
"If ACS had the best interest of my grandchild they should have made every attempt to notify me," the 45-year-old secretary said yesterday from her tidy Jersey City apartment.
Hailey was taken to the hospital after allegedly being shaken and slammed in her crib by Edwin Garcia, 30.
The tot's mother, Marlene Medina, 24, didn't call 911 for five hours after the incident, according to court documents. Garcia and Medina are jailed on assault and endangerment charges in Tuesday's attack and due in court today.........................
I would have taken Hailey... Grandma outraged that ACS never contacted her after tot was beaten
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