LI Couple Abandoned 6-Year-Old Girl In Queens: DA

PATCHOGUE, NY — A Long Island mother and her boyfriend on Wednesday were accused of leaving a 6-year-old girl alone in Queens earlier this week, according to Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz. Patrice Chambers, 29, and Mark Pamphile, 28, both of Patchogue, were arraigned before Queens Criminal Court Judge Jeffrey Gershuny and charged with abandonment of a child, second-degree reckless endangerment and endangering the welfare of a child, the DA said.

On Monday morning, Chambers was driving with Pamphile in the passenger seat, when she stopped her car near the intersection of 140th Avenue and Springfield Boulevard and ordered her daughter out of the car, Katz said. The child’s belongings were in plastic bags and thrown out of the car and left the youngster there, the DA said.

Chambers’ white car was seen on video surveillance stopped at that intersection and the girl can be seen exiting the car and the bags tossed out, the DA said. The video shows the woman driving away and the little girl running in the street picking up her clothes, the DA said. The girl was found not too far from where her biological father lives.

Katz said Pamphile left voicemail messages for the girl's father threatening to abandon her if he didn’t pay her. Pamphile also stated in another message that the girl now had no place to sleep and that "she was crying like a little b----," the DA said.

The child was found by a good Samaritan shortly after Chambers left the neighborhood. The person took the girl to school safety agents in a nearby park and the agency notified police. The child is now in the custody of child protective services.