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« on: April 09, 2010, 10:54:57 AM »

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2010/04/09/2010-04-09_rape_suspect_who_dumped_tot_is_nabbed.html

Rape suspect who dumped tot is nabbed after two-year manhunt

Friday, April 9, 2010


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 two-year manhunt in a case that captivated the city ended Thursday when cops busted a young man who heartlessly abandoned the baby he had fathered with a 14-year-old girl.

Carlos Cardenas, 29, fled the city in February 2008 after scheming with crooked cabbie Klever Sailema to ditch his doe-eyed baby girl at a Queens firehouse.

The sad fate of little Daniella, then just 6 months old, tugged at the heartstrings of millions when her picture ran on the front page of the Daily News.

Cardenas, an undocumented Ecuadorian construction worker, narrowly escaped being nabbed in Indiana, Maryland and Puerto Rico before his time on the run ended yesterday afternoon, police sources said.

"We've been after him for two years," a police source said. "He kept running, and we just kept missing him."

Cardenas, who has been charged with rape for fathering Daniella with a teenage runaway, recently slipped back into Manhattan, where he was hiding out in Washington Heights and living under the alias Fabiano Castillo.

After detectives learned the foolish fugitive had returned to the city, they collared him on the street, outside his pad, yesterday afternoon, the sources said.

Cardenas hatched his cowardly plan with Sailema - who was dating Cardenas' sister - after whining to his super about how Daniella's mother had left him alone with the baby.

Yesterday, Cardenas chalked his arrest up to "bad luck" as detectives led him out of the NYPD's Bronx special victims unit.

Sailema was briefly hailed as a hero before he was arrested after admitting to police that his entire story was a lie. He was charged, but the case was dismissed.

Days after Sailema owned up to his shame, Daniella and her mom were sent back to the mother's home in Maryland, where both were in the care of the state's Department of Social Services.

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« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2010, 10:57:50 AM »

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/man-in-2008-baby-abandonment-case-arrested/?src=mv
Father Charged in 2008 Case of Baby Left With Cabby
Thursday, April 8, 2010


Daniella Perez, then about 5 months old, shortly after her recovery in Queens in 2008.

The father of a baby girl who made headlines in 2008 when she was found after being supposedly abandoned in the back of a livery cab in Queens was arrested Thursday, the police said. The man, Carlos Cardenas, 29, of West 146th Street in Manhattan, was charged with statutory rape of the girl’s mother, who was around 14 when she gave birth to the girl, Daniella Perez.

The case of Daniella Perez gripped the city for days. She was 5 or 6 months old on Feb. 28, 2008, when she was said to have been abandoned in the back of a livery cab and taken to a firehouse by the driver. The driver, Klever Sailema, was briefly hailed as a hero after he told the police that a stranger had left the baby in his car.

His story quickly unraveled when it became apparent to investigators that he was trying to help the girl’s overburdened father — early accounts gave his name as Carlos Rodas — get rid of her. The father had told neighbors that the girl’s young mother had disappeared and that he could not take care of her on his own.

The police searched for the baby’s father, who was said to be living in the Bronx, but could not find him.

Mr. Sailema was charged with falsely reporting an incident, but the case was dismissed and sealed. Daniella wound up in the foster care system.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/09/AR2010040901492.html
Father of baby abandoned in 2008 is arrested in NY
Friday, April 9, 2010
NEW YORK -- The father of a doe-eyed girl who captured the hearts of New Yorkers when she was abandoned two years ago with the help of a taxi driver has been charged with statutory rape of the baby's mother, police said Friday.

Carlos Cardenas, 29, had fled after the girl was abandoned in February 2008 but recently resurfaced in New York, police said. The name of his attorney was not immediately on record.

The case grabbed headlines when a livery cab driver left the baby, who was who was about 6 months old, at a Queens firehouse.

The driver, Klever Sailema, was initially hailed as a hero after telling authorities the child, Daniella, had been left in his cab. Officials showed off the little girl - dressed in pink, with a bow around her head - at a press conference while trying to find her relatives.

Sailema told investigators that a nervous-looking man got into his cab carrying the baby and a diaper bag, then disappeared after asking him to pull over so he could make a phone call. He took her to the firehouse, where doting firefighters played with her and changed her diaper while awaiting a medical checkup. Police released a sketch of the supposed suspect.
Two days later, police declared Sailema had made up the story and had plotted with his girlfriend - Daniella's aunt - to abandon her. Both were charged with criminal facilitation; Sailema also was charged with falsely reporting an incident.

Attorneys for the couple said they were only trying to help the baby. Prosecutors eventually agreed, and decided to have the case dismissed.

"Everything was falling on ... my shoulders," an apologetic Sailema said at the time. "I only thought about the child."

The baby and her then-14-year-old mother, a runaway from Baltimore, were taken back to Maryland.



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