B’klyn mom: Foster kid abused my kid

A Brooklyn mom claims her 6-year-old girl was sexually abused by a foster child that the city’s Administration for Children’s Services practically dumped on her doorstep.

The disturbing situation began after an incident in January 2020, when a pregnant woman the mother had met just once before on the playground rang her doorbell with a child in tow, the mom claims in a lawsuit.

The pregnant woman then handed the mom her cellphone, papers state.

An ACS caseworker was on the line, asking the mom to take the girl in “for a night or two” while the woman gave birth, according to legal papers, which identify the mom only as “M.D.”

Caseworker Ranasha Nightingale allegedly thought the children were friends, but M.D., who shared a two-bedroom apartment with her own daughter, told Nightingale she’d never watched the child before and would have to think it over, she says in a Brooklyn federal court complaint.

She alleges she was pressured to pick up the kid the next day.

The older child, whom M.D. claims had been a victim of sexual abuse herself, spent two weeks sharing a bedroom with M.D.’s daughter, subjecting her to nightly abuse until the daughter began to wake screaming in the middle of the night, M.D. alleges, before the older girl was picked up by the ACS.

“What happened to my client and her daughter was horrific and avoidable,” said M.D.’s attorney, Evan Brustein. “My client wants justice for her family and to prevent other families from needlessly enduring what they went through.”