The city’s child welfare agency does an “in-depth” look at how it handled a previous case of alleged abandonment involving Dimone Fleming and her oldest son, whom he allegedly killed alongside her baby over the weekend, the city said on Tuesday. Mayor Eric Adams.
“ACS is in the process of digging into this matter to find out what happened there,” said Hizzoner of the Children’s Services Administration, which has opened an investigation into Fleming’s alleged improper care of his oldest son, Daishawn Fleming. after he was born about three years. from.
Adams did not provide details of the previous investigation.
“We have no right to do that,” he said.
Fleming, 22, admitted to killing Daishawn and her 11-month-old baby Octavius Fleming in their Bronx nursing home apartment on Saturday, according to police and law enforcement sources.
She was allegedly obsessed with demonic possession and police are investigating whether they believed the children were possessed, law enforcement sources said.
On Tuesday, the mayor praised all the work of the ACS, the city agency responsible for managing children’s affairs, safety and juvenile justice.
“I think they’re professionals who, you know, face the challenges of, you know, keeping families together but protecting children, and I think they’re doing a good job every day of doing that,” she said. .
