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.; Choir Member Si In Child-Snatchii By KAREEM FAHIM other A member of a Harlem church The choir who the police said tried to and ji drag a 4-year-old Bronx boy from his pushe home on Saturday surrendered yes- into tl terday, and faces charges including Ix^s I 3111; assault and attempted burglary.’ His I din/ The authorities tracked down die grabb -IS' man, Lawrence Craig, 44, of River- inghii Uer side Drive in Upper Manhattan, after tween _ \ a witness saw him driving a car reg- ford s 9d' istered to a State Supreme Court Jus- neigh! ijc. tice, according to a police officiaL On black ?iU Monday, Investigators visited the cense bib Westchester home of the justice, Rec eid Donna H. Mills, who told them that consii ol”. Craig ond-d( — a fourth Supreme Court he pie justice says the mlsde other suspect is her friend. cordii paid { show, time. Mr. Craig was her friend and had Mr. been driving her car on Saturday, recon She told investigators that Mr. Craig was n 1 -. would turn himself in to die author!- has a -.’des, the official said, and he did. • Willla At their apartment on Beaumont Metho Avenue in the Belmont section yes- lem, n relatives of the 4-year-old anony ■'“boy said they did not know Mr. Craig repute and had no idea how he ended up on Craig their doorstep. memh gyf The boy’s older brother, Glenford jgfl Davis, 14, said that his mother. Nor- would "va Davis, had been on the. phone on a Saturday just after 1p.m. vdien they hlsvo< 9il‘&eardalmo(*atdiedoor. Asf 9^, Ms. Davis answered it, and Glen- tor the OS. ford said he saw a man about 5 feet 8 ; tradoi .ail inches tall, wearing slacks, a white “ I 7 shirt and a suit Jacket “He said he ' bnf. was looking for my mom,” said Glen- 5“ ford, who added that his mother did " Hiv. not recognize Mr. Craig. She told him •fliat perhaps he was looking for an- , of, clears iig--------------------------------------- stemn har SSatOiew Sweeney and Janon Fisher Bronx [^^contributed reportingfor this article, twoca 3'b-________, eid -

^Social Services Su^ Sis ni .. Faulted in Scald By ANAHAD O'CONNOR S’/; WHITE PLAINS, Aug. 23 - Offi- .dais in Westchester County on Tues- H '' day faulted the supervisor of a case- / — worker who was fired after two ba- S' bles were scalded to death last month in their Yonkers apartment, w saying the supervisor broke pro- i cedures and may have Ued to in- . .. vestigators. The sitoervlsor, a county worker Elijah for 15 years, was responsible for meeting with the caseworker every . two weeks and reading her notes at least once a month but did a poor job of monitoring, county officials said, month The caseworker, a woman, was fired on Ju on Aug. 1 after investigators discov- poured efed that die had skipped several Luz P. meetings with the family of the two ing an boys in the months before they died. only a Officials have declined to Identify with c either worker and have not decided ’ the fal on the supervisor’s discipline. Maldo “Our protocols and our procedures ond-de are strong,” said Kevin P. Mahon, The the commissioner of the county’s De- the fai partment of Social Services. “In this servla instance, we have determined that It wamii took two individuals to break them workbi and at least one to lie about them.” detent Mr. Mahon’s comments came dur- safe, b ing a hearing Tuesday of the county Mahon Legislature’s Committee on Fam- she ha ilies at which legislators pressed him less th for information about his agency’s cases, monitoring of the two babies. After “We Mr. Mahon declined to name the league workers and describe details of the to Wes investigation, citing agency regula- the ca dons, several legislators said they said. would consider Iswitno guhnnonaa NYC-WTC_000143472