A 15-month-old baby was trapped with her mother's corpse for five days in a homeless shelter and left covered in feces and dehydrated after her mom died from accidental overdose, court papers reveal. Quraan Laboy, 31, is planning to sue the City of New York and the Department of Homeless Services for $5 million in damages after his daughter Lyric Laboy was discovered by workers at the East River Family Center under a bed near the body of her mom, the reported.Last July 25, the infant was found huddled by the corpse of her mother Shelbi Westlake, 26, who officials said died of an accidental overdose days earlier, a Manhattan Supreme Court petition said.
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