Nicole Diggs, Bronx, New York City, New York (arrested June 2014) [negligent homicide of daughter]

Nicole Diggs & Oscar Thomas
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Nicole Diggs (Yonkers, New York), 31, special education teacher at P.S. 152 Evergreen, New York City Department of Education, Bronx, New York City, New York, "charged with negligent homicide in the death of her severely disabled 8-year-old daughter":
New York City Special Education Teacher Charged in Death of 8-Year-Old Disabled Daughter

A New York City special education teacher has been charged with negligent homicide in the death of her severely disabled 8-year-old daughter. The Westchester County district attorney's office said Wednesday that the mother, Nicole Diggs of the Bronx, "engaged in an ongoing course of neglect." The district attorney's office said the girl, Alayah Saverese, did not receive adequate food, medical care or hygiene. It said she was often kept home from her special school without adequate supervision. The girl, who had cerebral palsy and a seizure disorder, was found dead in June 2012 at Diggs' apartment in Yonkers, where she ...

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NY mom charged with neglect in death of 8-year-old

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — A New York City special education teacher has been charged with negligent homicide in the death of her severely disabled 8-year-old daughter. The Westchester County district attorney's office said Wednesday that the mother, Nicole ...

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NY teacher barred from having access to students

A New York City special education teacher charged with negligent homicide in the death of her severely disabled 8-year-old daughter has been barred from having access to students. An Education Department spokeswoman tells the Journal News Nicole Diggs of Yonkers has been reassigned to administrative duties pending the outcome of her case. Diggs pleaded not guilty to the charges on Wednesday. She's being held on $25,000 bail.

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NY teacher barred from having access to students

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A New York City special education teacher charged with negligent homicide in the death of her severely disabled 8-year-old daughter has been barred from having access to students.

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NY teacher barred from having access to students

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — A New York City special education teacher charged with negligent homicide in the death of her severely disabled 8-year-old daughter has been barred from having access to students. An Education Department spokeswoman tells the Journal ...

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NY teacher barred from having access to students

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A New York City special education teacher charged with negligent homicide in the death of her severely disabled 8-year-old daughter has been barred from having access to students. An Education Department spokeswoman tells the ...

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Yonkers mom charged in disabled girl's death removed from classroom

Nicole Diggs, 31, of Yonkers, charged with criminally negligent homicide in the death of Alayah-Rose Savarese, has been reassigned to administrative duties pending the outcome of her case, said New York City Department of Education spokeswoman Marge Feinberg.

Diggs, who had been awarded nearly $2.1 million to take care of Alayah, works at P.S. 152 Evergreen, an elementary school, and earns roughly $70,000 a year. She is accused of neglecting Alayah for a six-month period leading up to the girl's death at her apartment on Ashburton Avenue, by failing to feed her, bathe her and attend to her medical needs.​

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Mom's husband charged in disabled girl's death

Oscar Thomas, 28, of the Bronx was arraigned Thursday afternoon in Westchester County Court, where the indictment was unsealed, and is being held without bond. His arrest comes a week after the girl's mother — then his fiancee and now his wife — was arrested in the case.

Thomas and 31-year-old Nicole Diggs of Yonkers, a Cornell University graduate and Bronx special-education teacher, are accused of failing to feed 8-year-old Alayah-Rose Savarese, bathe her and attend to her medical needs, despite having access to a $2.1 million trust to take care of her.​

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Mom's husband charged in disabled girl's death

His arrest comes a week after the girl's mother - then his fiancee and now his wife - was arrested in the case. Thomas and 31-year-old Nicole Diggs of Yonkers, a Cornell University graduate and Bronx special-education teacher, are accused of failing to ...

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Mom's husband charged in disabled girl's death

His arrest comes a week after the girl's mother - then his fiancee and now his wife - was arrested in the case. Thomas and 31-year-old Nicole Diggs of Yonkers, a Cornell University graduate and Bronx special-education teacher, are accused of failing to ...

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Mom's husband charged in disabled girl's death

His arrest comes a week after the girl's mother — then his fiancee and now his wife — was arrested in the case. Thomas and 31-year-old Nicole Diggs of Yonkers, a Cornell University graduate and Bronx special-education teacher, are accused of failing to ...

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Mom charged in girl's death could get trust fund

A special education teacher accused of killing her severely disabled 8-year-old daughter by withholding food and medical care could inherit nearly $1 million from the girl's trust fund — even if she's convicted. Nicole Diggs and her husband have pleaded not guilty to charges of negligent homicide and child endangerment in the 2012 death of Alayah Savarese, who was the beneficiary of a trust fund created from the settlement of a malpractice suit that stemmed from complications during her birth.


The indictment doesn't allege that the trust fund was a motive, but Diggs' attorney says prosecutors are nevertheless implying that her client "somehow disposed of her daughter in order to obtain the money." She wants any mention of the trust fund barred from trial and says her client didn't neglect Alayah.​

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Mom charged in girl's death could get trust fund

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A New York special education teacher accused of killing her severely disabled 8-year-old daughter by withholding food and medical care could inherit nearly $1 million from the girl's trust fund — even if she's convicted.

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Mom charged in girl's death could get trust fund

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A special education teacher accused of killing her severely disabled ... disqualified from inheriting her daughter's fortune because she isn't charged with intending to kill the girl. Many states have so-called slayer statutes ...

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Mom charged in girl’s death could get trust fund

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A special education teacher accused of killing her severely disabled ... disqualified from inheriting her daughter’s fortune because she isn’t charged with intending to kill the girl. Many states have so-called slayer ...

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Mom charged in girl's death could get $1 million from trust fund

Nicole Diggs and her husband have pleaded not guilty to charges of negligent homicide and child endangerment in the 2012 death of Alayah Savarese, who was the beneficiary of a trust fund created from the settlement of a malpractice suit that stemmed from complications during her birth.

The indictment doesn't allege that the trust fund was a motive, but Diggs' attorney says prosecutors are nevertheless implying that her client "somehow disposed of her daughter in order to obtain the money." She wants any mention of the trust fund barred from trial and says her client didn't neglect Alayah.​

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Mom charged in girl's death could get trust fund

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - A special education teacher accused of killing her severely disabled ... disqualified from inheriting her daughter's fortune because she isn't charged with intending to kill the girl. Many states have so-called slayer statutes ...

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Mom charged in girl's death could get trust fund

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A special education teacher accused of killing her severely disabled ... disqualified from inheriting her daughter's fortune because she isn't charged with intending to kill the girl. Many states have so-called slayer statutes ...

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Mom charged in girl’s death could get trust fund

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — A special education teacher accused of killing her severely disabled ... disqualified from inheriting her daughter’s fortune because she isn’t charged with intending to kill the girl. Many states have so-called slayer statutes ...

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Mother charged in daughter's death could get $1M trust fund

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – A special education teacher accused of killing her severely disabled ... disqualified from inheriting her daughter's fortune because she isn't charged with intending to kill the girl. Many states have so-called slayer statutes ...

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Cornell grad mom charged in girl’s death may get money

WHITE PLAINS – A special education teacher and Cornell University graduate accused of ... disqualified from inheriting her daughter’s fortune because she isn’t charged with intending to kill the girl. Many states have so-called slayer statutes ...

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Mom charged in girl's death could get trust fund

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A special education teacher accused of killing her severely disabled 8-year-old daughter by withholding food and medical care could inherit nearly $1 million from the girl's trust fund — even if she's convicted.

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Mom charged in disabled girl's death could get trust fund

A special education teacher accused of killing her severely disabled 8-year ... automatically disqualified from inheriting her daughter's fortune because she isn't charged with intending to kill the girl. Many states have so-called slayer statutes to ...

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Mum charged in girl's death could get trust fund

Westchester County Department of Correction Nicole Diggs, who is charged in the death of her eight-year-old disabled daughter, could inherit nearly a million dollars from the girl's trust fund, even if she's convicted. A special education teacher accused ...

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