Mother of drowned toddler wants charges for babysitter
Sep. 9—The last time LaQuinta Ferguson saw her 4-year-old son alive was the morning of June 27 when she left him with a friend who was going to watch him while she was at work.
Normally her son, Brasi Ali-Shahir Muhammad, who Ferguson called Shahir during an interview this week with The News, would go with his grandmother, Shadah Arnett, but on that day, things worked out so that Shahir would be with someone new for the afternoon.
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