The 6-year-old's distraught dad found dead in the Brooklyn bathtub, believing that his daughter had been “slayed” and asked a friend “a miracle,” the companion told the Post. .
No arrests have been made for the death of a child who was found to sink into a family's Cypress Hills bathtub Friday afternoon, authorities said.
A colleague felt something was wrong Friday afternoon when the father of the girl, whom he identified as “George,” did not show up for a shift at a nearby supermarket.
“He sent me a message like four o'clock that someone had killed his daughter. He didn't say who,” Emmanuel Pichard said.
“He was in the hospital. I told him to be patient, believe in God, and leave everything to him. He sought miracles,” added Pichardo, 42. “I feel sad because I'm receiving news that you shouldn't hear.”
The girl's mother was handcuffed and led from the house. She was questioned by police but had not been charged as of Saturday afternoon.
Outside the house on Saturday, the man who identified the victim's uncle and himself told the Post: I don't know what to say. ”
Police from the NYPD Crime Scene Unit were seen removing evidence from their homes using brown paper bags.
The girl was “happy and cute,” the neighbor said.
“I think they're happy. I see my mother love the girl…and [the father] “Next neighbor Gina Cow said.
Her husband, Tuan Bui, recalled the child's cheerful morning greeting.
“sometimes [the youngster] Go outside with her mother who says “good morning” or “hello.” She was a lovely girl,” said Bui, 60.
“The girl always looked happy. In the summer I see her walking to the park with her mother and father… nothing wrong,” repeated neighbor Vincent Abbado.
Something seemed to be wrong a few hours before the child's death, the neighbor recalls hearing that 73-year-old Khau had heard “someone was screaming” around 4am and the toilet was I got up to use.
“I think it was a little girl,” she said, but her husband said she could hear her family talking all night.
“They didn't sleep that night,” recalls the 60-year-old Bui.
He later saw the first responder leave the house and take the child to an ambulance waiting for him.
” [EMT] I took her to Dolly. His lips were green and his eyes were closed. They covered her around her neck with a white sheet,” Bui said.
The girl was taken to Brookdale University Medical Center, where she was declared dead, police said.
According to police sources, the girl could have been under the water for 20 minutes and by the time the officer found her there was a blood clot in her eyes.
