Here’s how NYC’s child services agency is failing innocent kids, with sometimes deadly results: ‘Doesn’t have to come to this’
Jahmeik Modlin slowly starved to death in a squalid Harlem apartment — one of more than a half dozen neglected and abused kids who died under the lax supervision of the city’s Administration for Children’s Services in just the past year, a review by The Post has found.
The tragic 4-year-old’s parents allegedly kept his food locked in kitchen cabinets for up to two years, leaving Jahmeik so malnourished that he died weighing just 19 pounds — with his grieving family blaming ACS for abandoning the children in its care.
“ACS failed the kids,” Jahmeik’s aunt, Nyisha Ragsdale, told The Post. “They could have done something. They need to fix the system, their rules, their regulations — the whole thing.
“Why are these things happening? You don’t know what’s going on until something happens and that’s the sad part. It doesn’t have to come to this,” she said. “He was still a baby. He didn’t get a chance.”
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