Council members want answers about last month’s courtroom birth

Council Members demand investigation after Brooklyn courtroom birth

More than two dozen City Council members are calling for an investigation of the circumstances that resulted in a 33-year-old woman giving birth in a Brooklyn courtroom last month. After being arrested for low-level drug and trespassing charges, Samantha Randazzo — who was nine months pregnant — went into labor while awaiting her arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court on May 15.  Randazzo was reportedly handcuffed at the time, though court offic…

Council members want answers about last month’s courtroom birth

More than half of the members in the New York City Council sent a letter to Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, the city’s district attorneys and administrative judges Thursday urging the city to investigate why a handcuffed woman was forced to give birth in a Brooklyn courtroom last month.   The letter, organized by the council’s progressive and women’s caucuses, comes several weeks after a 33-year-old woman named Samantha …