06-21-2012, 07:20 AM
NYPost
Go get a job— just not that job.
A Brooklyn judge was baffled yesterday when a mother who dumped her newborn down a garbage chute said she is looking for work as a home health aide. OH GOOD! give that girl a bedpan!
Laquasia Wright must hold down a job as part of a deal in which she pleaded guilty to endangering the welfare of a child — but Justice Patricia DiMango was stumped by her career choice.
“That’s probably the least appropriate job for her,” DiMango told Wright and her lawyer. “It defies logic. I don’t think it’s the best choice.”
Wright was charged last year with trying to kill her baby boy by tossing him out with the trash at a Fort Greene housing project.
A worker at the Walt Whitman Houses heard the baby’s cries and fished the boy out of the bottom of a trash compactor in May 2011.
As part of the plea, Wright must be on probation for five years, keep a job and earn her general- equivalency degree.
“She is getting help with a family member,” said defense lawyer John Rodriguez.
“We’re making every effort to help and rehabilitate her — none of us took this conclusion lightly.”
If Wright doesn’t stick to the deal, she risks up to seven years in prison.
Go get a job— just not that job.
A Brooklyn judge was baffled yesterday when a mother who dumped her newborn down a garbage chute said she is looking for work as a home health aide. OH GOOD! give that girl a bedpan!
Laquasia Wright must hold down a job as part of a deal in which she pleaded guilty to endangering the welfare of a child — but Justice Patricia DiMango was stumped by her career choice.
“That’s probably the least appropriate job for her,” DiMango told Wright and her lawyer. “It defies logic. I don’t think it’s the best choice.”
Wright was charged last year with trying to kill her baby boy by tossing him out with the trash at a Fort Greene housing project.
A worker at the Walt Whitman Houses heard the baby’s cries and fished the boy out of the bottom of a trash compactor in May 2011.
As part of the plea, Wright must be on probation for five years, keep a job and earn her general- equivalency degree.
“She is getting help with a family member,” said defense lawyer John Rodriguez.
“We’re making every effort to help and rehabilitate her — none of us took this conclusion lightly.”
If Wright doesn’t stick to the deal, she risks up to seven years in prison.