July 28, 2019 Your Neighborhood — Your News®
Flushing
mom jailed for
killing baby
Vol. 8. No. 30
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CL ASSIFIEDS
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Senate votes to extend 9/11 victims fund
Victim Compensation Fund aids fi rst responders and other survivors
we will never forget what our 9/11
heroes did for us,” said Senator
Kirsten Gillibrand. “This bill
is for every single person who
decided in that terrible moment
— when we were attacked, when
we were vulnerable and we were
scared — to do the unthinkable: to
risk their lives for total strangers
and sacrifice their bodies for our
country. It is for every person
who spent days, weeks and
months on the pile, and has had to
suffer physical and mental scars
for years because of that heroic
work. It is for every survivor who
lived in a home or went to school
downtown when the government
told them the air was safe to
breathe. The Senate promised
that we would ‘never forget,’
and today we finally lived up to
that promise.”
In 2010, and again in 2015,
legislation was passed to
provide medical monitoring and
treatment for the thousands of
9/11 responders and survivors
who have become ill, many
terminally, from exposure to
the toxic air at Ground Zero
filled with burning chemicals,
pulverized drywall, concrete and
glass. However, the September
Elected officials join QPL president and CEO Dennis Walcott in front of a JetBlue Soar with Reading book
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BY BILL PARRY
For 15 years, 9/11 first
responders traveled the I-95
corridor to lobby in Washington,
D.C., for the permanent funding
of the September 11th Victim
Compensation Fund.
On July 23, they gathered with
New York City’s Congressional
delegation, other 9/11 survivors
and comedian Jon Stewart, one
of their staunchest advocates,
to celebrate their mission
accomplished following the
Senate’s passing of the bipartisan
legislation 97-2.
“This bill sends a powerful
signal from our nation, from
Congress, and from all the people
we represent in all 50 states that
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BRINGING READING TO NEW HEIGHTS
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
A 30-year-old Flushing
woman who raised twin babies
in a “house of horrors” received
a 12-year prison sentence on
Thursday, July 18 for her role in
repeated abuse that led to her 13-
month-old daughter’s death and
nearly killed her twin brother
back in October 2018.
Tina Torabi, 30, of Ashby
Avenue in the Auburndale section
of Flushing pleaded guilty back
in May to first-degree assault and
second-degree manslaughter.
Her 13-month-old daughter,
Elaina, died of injuries related
to fatal child abuse syndrome,
the Medical Examiner’s office
determined. Elaina’s twin brother
suffered a litany of injuries also
related to child abuse syndrome
— and nine months later, he
is still recovering from them,
according to acting Queens
District Attorney John Ryan.
“The baby twins lived in
a house of horrors with their
siblings,” Ryan said on July 18.
“The mother of these children
had a responsibility — not just to
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