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Releases & Statements
According to published and broadcast reports, Martha Yates--whose son, Antoine Yates, raised a tiger and an alligator in her apartment--was a foster mother from 1998 to 2002. These reports indicate that the City placed several foster children, ranging in age from four to ten, in the care of Ms. Yates while the apartment was her official residence.
To date, the Administration for Children’s Services has not been able to establish whether or not these children lived in the apartment during the period in question. It is outrageous that it takes this agency so long to determine where the children in the system have been.
I urge ACS to make its investigation into this matter immediate, swift, and thorough. If Ms. Yates was caring for foster children in the same apartment where her son was raising potentially vicious animals, ACS needs to explain how the situation went unnoticed. Bizarre as the details of this case may be, it would not be the only incident in which ACS has overlooked dangerous conditions in a foster home.
Anat Jacobson, Press Secretary
(212) 669-4743 or (646) 321-4400
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