Mom Arrested for Abandoning 2 Young Girls on the Street

BROOKLYN — Friends, relatives and neighbors were horrified after a mother abandoned her two little girls in the midst of a Canarsie housing project has the neighborhood. Wearing parkas and Ugg boots and each clutching a fistful of diapers, family members say 26-year-old Dalisha Adams left them as an angry message for their father. Bertha Davia, the little girls' grandmother, spoke to PIX11 at the same corner where the girls were abandoned. "It's making my heart have pain," she wailed as she recounted how police came knocking at her door late Sunday night to say 4-year-old Diani and 3 year old Dominae had been ditched by their mother and were taken into protective custody. Bertha Davia is now heartbroken, desperately trying to get her two beautiful granddaughters back. They are the children of her son Shawn Cobbs, 27. The family believes the couple had a fight and that mother Dalisha Adams, 26, left the girls as an angry message to their father, who has a son with another woman. "I don't know why she do this to me. She knew it would hurt me," said Davia, who is petitioning, along with another daughter, to gain custody of the two girls. The girls' uncle, Shaquils Renger, said he was frantic when he heard the news. He, like so many others, had questions no on could answer. "Leave my kids with diapers? I never thought she would do something like that." The girls were tossed out in the midst of the Bay View Houses Sunday afternoon by their mother, who works as a security guard ...