VIDEO: Brooklyn Mother Arrested After Fire Kills Unsupervised Daughter

From http://newyork.cbslocal.com:

By Joseph Stepansky and Thomas Tracy

Brooklyn (NY) – Firefighters dousing an apartment fire in Brooklyn early Tuesday found a deceased two-year-old girl who had been left in the apartment by her stripper mother, who had gone out partying, police sources said.

Kaleenah Muldrow’s body was found hidden under a bed in the third-floor apartment shortly after the fire had torn through the top of the Monroe St. building in Bushwick and was put out at 7:30 a.m., police sources said.

It’s believed the tot hid under the bed in a panic when the fire started an hour earlier, the sources said.

Police charged the child’s mother, Leila Aquino, 20, with endangering the welfare of a child and reckless endangerment, saying she didn’t return home until about 9:30 a.m.

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