4-day-old baby found living in a shoe box

(Bed-Stuy - WABC, Sep. 7, 2007) (WABC) -- A baby, less than a week old, is in the care of the Administration for Children's Services Friday. Her mother, under arrest, after police found the newborn living in a shoe box in an apartment in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn Thursday.

The four day old baby was found inside her mother's apartment. She is recovering at a local hospital after police say, she was discovered inside of a shoe box, surrounded by filth and roaches, not to mention cocaine and a loaded gun.

According to cops, police showed up at 109 Marcus Garvey Boulevard in Bed-Stuy to apartment B-11 with a search warrant. They were looking for an alleged gang member and convicted felon. When they got to the apartment, they found and arrested the suspect identified as 22-year-old Tarik Vaughn. But what they found after that, was way beyond their expectations.

A 4-day-old baby girl was alive inside a Timberland shoe box, and left alone with her 15-year-old aunt.

"One resident said I just can't understand the conditions," said one resident.

Some neighbors the 19-year-old mother, Genilla Vaughn was mentally disabled. Her brother, Tarik Vaughn is now facing charges for the weapons.

Residents are trying to figure out why the family would resort to these conditions.

"That's crazy....a 4-day-old baby, in a shoe box, with a gun...and cocaine?.........that's sick," said neighbor Jason Watson.

Eyewitness News spoke with the police commissioner about this case and he said the baby's 19-year-old mother has no history as a parent with ACS. However, she will be arraigned later today and charged with endangering the welfare of a minor.

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