THIS DAD A LOSER!
Dope grabs sandwich, forgets kid
A DRUNKEN LONG Island man who abandoned his adorable 3-year-old in a Subway sandwich shop tearfully admitted to cops Sunday he’d been wasted and simply forgot she was with him, police sources said.
Stanley Frederique, 34, sobbed as he told traffic agents in downtown Brooklyn that he’d lost little Natalie at 11:30 p.m. Saturday in the Harlem fast-food joint.
He was charged with abandonment of a child and other offenses. A good Samaritan turned Natalie over to cops, preventing an even more heartbreaking tragedy.
“I didn’t leave my daughter,” Frederique said as cops escorted him from the 26th Precinct stationhouse. “I’m sick. You guys do not know what’s going on in my life. You guys are not in my shoes. I got problems. I didn’t leave my daughter.”
Cops and witnesses to the alleged abandonment on St. Nicholas Ave. said otherwise.
A surveillance camera captured father and daughter walking into the eatery.
“He looked drunk. He looked abnormal,” said Mohammed Rahman, 37, who has a fruit stand outside the Subway.
“I never seen him before. He was rude to her saying, ‘Go sit inside.’ ”
At some point, Frederique, of Elmont, L.I., simply left his daughter behind in the shop after ordering a footlong turkey sandwich, Subway worker Dipongkar Mandol said.
“I’m like, maybe he go outside for something else. Maybe he’ll be back and pick her up. But no, he didn’t come the whole night,” he said.
The girl even called out “Daddy, Daddy,” as she watched Frederique walk away, Mandol said.
After a few minutes someone at the eatery became alarmed and walked Natalie to the stationhouse nearby on W. 126th St, authorities said.
Natalie remained a cool customer throughout.
“She’s strong, this girl. This little girl she was strong. She didn’t care,” Mandol said.
At the stationhouse, Natalie’s spirits remained high.She flashed a big smile and struck a pose for the officer tasked with photographing her for an unidentified child report.
On Sunday, a woman carrying the photogenic little girl into her Long Island home held the child close and covered her face.
Luckner Frederique said his brother, Stanley, adores his daughter and is devoted to raising her right.
“Oh, my god, she is a gem. She’s 3 years old. She looks at the world . . . in such a beautiful manner. She’s very, very smart. Beyond smart, beyond her years,” said Luckner, 25. “She knows her name, she’s able to spell it — her first, her middle and her last name. She’s a star.”
But another man who said he was outside the Subway when Frederique split suspected the irresponsible father was on synthetic weed, called K2 or spice.
“The guy that did that was heavy on K2 — I don’t think he was, I know he was,” said Jerry Smith, 29.
Frederique has filed two federal lawsuits against the Nassau County Police Department and NYPD.
The former suit, which is ongoing, was the result of an encounter that ended with cops shooting the family pit bull and arresting Frederique for menacing and endangering the welfare of a child. One of Frederique’s brothers was also arrested.
The charges against Frederique were later dismissed, according to court papers.
The latter suit, stemming from an alleged wrongful arrest in 2013, was settled with the city for $30,000, according to a source familiar with the case.