Posted on 03/02/2008 6:37:39 AM PST by lowbridge
In a stunning turnaround, the cabby hailed as a hero for delivering an "abandoned" baby to a Queens firehouse Thursday was arrested yesterday for making up the heart-wrenching story.
In a dramatic jailhouse confession to The Post, livery cabdriver Klever Sailema, 45, said he was only trying to help the infant.
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Sailema allegedly teamed up with the child's dad, Carlos Rodas, 27, and paternal aunt, Maria Siavichay, to enact a bizarre plot to get rid of the kid, dubbed "Lourdes," but whose real name is Daniella Perez, after the little girl's 14-year-old mother said she could no longer handle being a mom, police sources said.
The plot unraveled late Friday night, when a neighbor who spotted the baby girl's picture in the newspapers called cops.
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That entire family deserves to be shot. I feel bad for that kid, who is going to live a miserable life in foster homes.
A fourteen year old mother seems to indicate that a male should be headed for jail time...
Oh, Nueva York.
These people are scum.
A few blocks from the firehouse, Sailema said, Siavichay became worried because "she did not have [immigration] papers"
Actually, by doing it this way, the story becomes high profile, many people see the baby, and the baby has a better chance of being adopted.
It's bizarre, at best, but as far as the baby goes, I think it's not the worst thing in the world.
Oh, no no no no no, ya can't do that you see. It's their culture, their "Cultura." Rates right up there with their family values. We must joyously embrace this diversity.
Now get your checkbook out you evil lazy American you!
I agree. At least they didn’t hurt or endanger the baby. Usually stories like this start with the discovery of a tiny body in a river, or a dumpster, or a shallow grave.
Oh please. What a juvenile and uneducated remark.
it takes a village
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I agree. And they throw the cabbie in jail? For what, lying?
I just read a few days go that a girl that killed her baby got off w/ probation.
So lying is worse than murder?
Guess the 14 y.o mother should have just killed the baby. Then everyone goes free. /s
yeah he is a first rate (non)citizen
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