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[h=1]Brooklyn grandma abandons 5-year-old granddaughter in car to gamble at Queens casino: cops[/h][h=2]Renee Osby, 56, told police that she went into the casino to cash a check, but cops weren't buying it after they waited with her granddaughter for more than an hour. The Bushwick grandma was arrested for acting in a manner injurious to a child, police said.[/h] BY
Maria Villasenor ,
Thomas Tracy ,
Barry Paddock ,
Rocco Parascandola
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Saturday, February 14, 2015, 5:13 PM
Updated: Sunday, February 15, 2015, 12:48 AM
She dealt her 5-year-old granddaughter a cold hand. A heartless grandma was busted Saturday for allegedly abandoning the little girl in a vehicle for more than an hour while she played the slots at a Queens casino.
Renee Osby, 56, first tried to bring her granddaughter with her into the Resorts World Casino in South Ozone Park but was turned away because kids aren’t allowed inside, according to police sources.
When security guards who had seen Osby with the girl earlier spotted the grandmother alone in the casino, they became suspicious and went looking for the woman’s car.
They found the granddaughter, identified by relatives as Jordan, trapped inside the unheated vehicle about 11 a.m. and called the cops, officials said. Temperatures were hovering just below freezing.
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Robert Stridiron/Robert StridironResort World Casino security found the 5-year-old child left alone inside a car outside the casino while Osby was allegedly gambling inside.</figure>
Osby returned to her vehicle about an hour later and claimed she had just gone inside to cash a check — but police sources said she was playing the slot machines.
She was arrested for acting in a manner injurious to a child, police said.
Little Jordan, who was unharmed, was reunited with her mother Saturday afternoon, officials said.
The girl and her mother live with Osby on Madison St. in Bushwick, Brooklyn, according to Osby’s husband.
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Julie Jacobson/APOsby said she had just gone inside to cash a check — but police sources said she was playing the slot machines.</figure>
“I can’t imagine anything bad about her,” said one of Osby’s shocked neighbors, who declined to give her name.
The neighbor said Osby’s family was the friendliest on the block and the only family to invite her over when she moved to the area a couple of years ago.
Earlier Saturday, a 3-year-old boy was found alone wandering the streets of Harlem while his mother’s boyfriend was out buying a last-minute Valentine bouquet.
The boy, spotted by an NYPD traffic enforcement agent near W. 146th St. and St. Nicholas Ave. about 9:30 a.m., was taken to Harlem Hospital for observation. He was not injured, cops said.
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Julie Jacobson/APThe slots may have been hot, but the weather was frigid and a little girl sat alone. About 30 minutes after he was found, the panicked live-in boyfriend of the tyke’s mother showed up at the 30th Precinct stationhouse to report him missing.
Victor Streety, 31, admitted leaving the boy unattended sleeping in their apartment while his girlfriend was at work. He said he went out to buy her Valentine’s Day flowers, only to return and find the boy gone.
Streety was charged with abandonment of a child, police said.
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