The bronx

Sharlene Santiago and her 10-year-old son with special needs were found dead and in an advanced state of decomposition inside their public housing (NYCHA) apartment in the Bronx who had visited from the city’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS).

The mother appears to be 39-years-old He had a medical event and died first, leaving no one to care for his son.Brian Santiago, who was confined to a bed and may have died of starvation, said the NYPD.

It is not clear when they died The family dog ​​had access to plenty of food and was found alive when police responded around 11:30 pm Wednesday responding call 911 about a foul odor at the Marble Hill Houses apartment on Broadway, near W. 228th St. An autopsy will confirm how and when they died.

“They were playing. No one… opened the door and they came in,” said a neighbor. Daily News without giving him a name. “After that I saw the ambulances outside.” He said he only saw the woman a few times, but he hardly ever saw his sick son. “Personally, I don’t think I saw it… If I did, it was sometime and I forgot.”

ACS received five complaints of child neglect since 2013 when a drug test showed marijuana in his system at birth, according to a law enforcement source.

Among the charges are lack of supervision of her child and drug use by the mother, as well as several complaints of “failure to grow” claiming the child was not growing properly or gaining weight, according to the NYPD.

The boy was removed from Santiago custody after the most recent complaint in May 2016, although the city later reinstated protection. Before that The mother was also investigated in 2011 for inappropriate care and drug use in relation to a daughter an unknown woman who was not currently in her mother’s care.

In a similar event, on Tuesday A man and a woman were found dead inside a house in Island State (NYC), in an apparent case of murder-suicide.

Domestic violence is persistent in New York City and surrounding areas, between relatives, roommates and partners, even with small victims. Every day in NYC, an average of approx 747 incidents of domestic violence – including assaults, abuse, verbal abuse – and around 65 murders each year.

At the end of July A 54-year-old woman and her nephew were found stabbed to death and with signs of decay in the apartment they shared Brooklyn (NYC). The case was declared a double murder, but no arrests were made.