Amanda's baby ✔️

Chapter 2

Amanda pov...

We get a case about a young boy by himself, it seems like no one had been looking after him. He hardly talks but he did tell Liv his name was Bruno.

We go out to parks where some other kids to hang out to see if any of the moms recognise Bruno. I talk to one of the moms and one of the things she says to me is "the way your carrying it's a girl" but I don't know I feel that it's a boy. We talk to a few other people and one tells us that Bruno's mom is called Manuela don't know the last name. I talked to my contact at the housing authority and he said not to have hope he has to go over 2,000 leases. We call out to child services and weren't helpful so Liv was going to go, I said that fin and I got this but she didn't want me to go. Liv said to stay here and work the phones. I wish that I could go, I hate being stuck at my desk.

Liv and Carisi go to child services and find out that Bruno's last name is Ozuna. They find out that he also has a half-sister Keisha who lives with him and get the location of the apartment they live in.

They go to the apartment and it's like a furnace it's that hot. They find Keisha locked in a dog cage and she is barely alive. There is no sign of the mother in the apartment.

Keisha is taken to hospital. She isn't well she is suffering from starvation, infection and she is so dehydrated her organ are shutting down.

Fin finds the mother Manuela sitting on the side of the road and arrests her to bring her in.

At the hospital Carisi talks to the social worker and he is overworked so he doesn't have enough time to deal with every case properly.

Fin and I interview Manuela and she locked Keisha in the cage with no food because Keisha wouldn't shut up, it was Manuela's way of teaching Keisha a lesson. I am just thinking how could anyone treat their child like that.
Fin and I walk out of the interview as Liv calls us out. I say "the mothers a piece of work"
Liv says "she's also a murderer"
I am thinking what happened and Carisi says "Keisha didn't make it"

Liv and I talk to Barba about what we can do to make a case against child services as if the social worker Keith had been showing up they would have realised that the children weren't being properly looked after and maybe Keisha's death would never had happened. Barba says for it to work we need to get more evidence.
Liv and Carisi both go back to the child services agency to see what else they can find.
When they get back we go through what we can and find evidence that they were overworked and not doing there jobs properly. From what I found it seems like Keith hadn't been to see the Ozuna family in about four months. We show all of this to Barba and he can see that they weren't doing things right as Keith logged in all his latest visits to the family after Keisha died with the supervisors signature.

Liv gets called down to Chief Dodds office and Barba for to meet them both so they can talk more about the case. At the meeting Dodds is also joined by the deputy commissioner and Liv and Barba are told that the Commissioner doesn't want the work on the case to be continued and it is no longer a police matter. The deputy commissioner even congratulates Liv on making the Lieutenants lists.

Barba doesn't work for the NYPD so he can continue to work the case.
We all continue to help him and Dodds is angry he told us to back off but we won't so that things like this don't happen again.
We do find out that is wasn't only Keith who put in case files that day, other case workers also all put in many files in visits and the families that are working for so we know that most will be fake. Dodds talk to Liv about how he wanted us to stop the case and he also tells Liv that I am now on desk duty which I don't like, I would rather be out working and doing as much as I can.
While Liv is still talking to Dodds Carisi gets news from Keith that he wants to talk so Carisi and Barba head to the prison to go talk to him.
Keith admits that his bosses Jeanette and Matt even said that I didn't have to make all my visits as long as there was some sort of record that I had. He also admits that the day after Keisha's death he was called in to file reports about visits that never happened on his cases along with other workers cases.
Keith agrees to a plea so that he will testify against his bosses in court.
The trial happens and both of them cut a deal.

After the trial Liv gets another visit from Chief Dodds who tells Liv that her effort weren't noticed by 1pp and the mayor office. In order for Liv's promotion they want a sergeant under her they can trust, it was be Chief Dodds son Sergeant  Dodds.

After he walk out of the meeting with Liv I am still working on my paperwork and he talk to me and says "Detective Rollins, how are you feeling?"
I say "I'm okay, that was a tough case"
He says "yeah well, you can't save them all"
I say "yeah, I know"
He walks away and I look and put my hands on my stomach and think what will my child's future be like.