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After two nights in jail, Maria and Eliezer returned home as heroes. Linda, meanwhile, had left the foster-care center and turned up in a local crack house. She said she had not been doing drugs -- she just went to see her friends, dance, listen to music, as though this were a natural place for a teenage girl's pajama party. "I'm desperate now," her father told the Daily News after he tracked her down. "I'm going to the hardware store to buy another chain...
...time the drama had become New York's latest epic tale of urban tragedy. Talk-show producers swooped down to book the family for television, thereby ensuring that their private lives would not be the same until the lights had dimmed. When a photographer arrived at the tiny apartment, Linda, who still drinks from a baby bottle, was lying on the floor of her room under a dirty blue comforter, sucking her thumb. She refused to pose for pictures until her father cajoled her with hugs and soothing promises. "We haven't slept for days," Maria said, as camera crews...
...most anonymous city was gone, and city agencies were vying with one another to see which would do the most to help the family. The judge reduced the parents' felony charges to a misdemeanor. "It's good for us," said Eliezer, instructing his family to hug for the camera. Linda just lay down on her mother's lap. "Estoy cansada. Quiero dormir. Dejame quieta" -- I'm tired. I want to sleep. Leave me alone...
REPORTER-RESEARCHERS: Audrey Ball, David Bjerklie, Val Castronovo, Nancy Newman, Zona Sparks, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); Kathleen Brady, Barbara Burke, Wendy Cole, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Sinting Lai, Michael Quinn, Megan Rutherford, David Seideman, Linda Young...
REPORTERS: Elizabeth L. Bland, Tom Curry, David Ellis, Sophfronia Scott Gregory, Daniel S. Levy, Andrew Purvis, Andrea Sachs, Alain L. Sanders, David E. Thigpen, Leslie Whitaker, Linda Williams...