{"id":133340,"date":"2026-02-14T05:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T05:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/133340\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T05:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T05:22:07","slug":"mamdani-looks-to-put-more-children-in-danger-at-acs-as-lefties-want-to-abolish-much-needed-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/133340\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani looks to put more children in danger at ACS as lefties want to abolish much-needed agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Mayor Zohran Mamdani taps an \u201cabolitionist\u201d to run the Administration for Children\u2019s Services, he\u2019s courting a higher death toll than the 19 lost amid his heartless frozen-homeless policy.<\/p>\n<p>The departure of (terrible) ACS chief <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/09\/opinion\/nyc-childrens-protective-services-chief-defends-his-record-in-the-wake-of-post-exposes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jess Dannhauser<\/a> opens the way for Mamdani to please the far left by hiring someone even worse: a chief who wants to effectively abolish the agency, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/09\/opinion\/another-toddler-dead-because-progressives-believe-acs-should-be-abolished\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">warns Naomi Schaefer Riley<\/a> in The Post. <\/p>\n<p>Dannhauser\u2019s \u201cleadership\u201d saw multiple children die of abuse; most recently, including <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/05\/us-news\/toddler-allegedly-beaten-into-coma-by-his-demented-dad-at-nyc-shelter-has-died-my-baby-is-gone\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maliek Williams<\/a>, 2, brutally beaten to death by his father, Davon Morrison, while living in a city shelter, as well as the twin boys, 14, one with autism, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/21\/us-news\/depraved-nyc-mom-busted-for-keeping-14-year-old-twin-sons-under-house-arrest-starving-them-for-9-years\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">imprisoned and starved by a deranged mother<\/a> who wanted them to stay babies forever.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPost Editorial Board<\/p>\n<p>Behind such tragedies is the left\u2019s push for less monitoring of and intervention with troubled families because \u201cit\u2019s racist\u201d; claptrap that Gov. Kathy Hochul nonetheless fed by signing a new law<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/11\/opinion\/hochul-agrees-to-allow-more-child-abuse-in-new-york-city\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> that bans<\/a> child-welfare investigations on the basis of anonymous tips.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet opinions and commentary from our columnists\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani co-sponsored that legislation, so he seems primed to appease the lefties who want to abolish ACS as a matter of \u201cequity\u201d \u2014 child safety be damned \u2014 because they claim ACS investigations \u201coverpolice\u201d black and Hispanic New Yorkers.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, that enforcement is about protecting helpless black and Hispanic children.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor has plenty of cred with the left; if he has any conscience, he\u2019ll use some of it to shut down the  ACS-abolition lunatics. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If Mayor Zohran Mamdani taps an \u201cabolitionist\u201d to run the Administration for Children\u2019s Services, he\u2019s courting a higher&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[3775,8301,304,9,24,63,299,134,136,135,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-133340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-administration-for-childrens-services","9":"tag-child-abuse","10":"tag-editorial","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-opinion","15":"tag-staten-island","16":"tag-staten-island-headlines","17":"tag-staten-island-news","18":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}