A London cop who was arrested after leaving her sleeping baby alone in a Manhattan hotel room is suing a slew of agencies, claiming they placed her 15-month-old son with a foster mom who spent her birthday cavorting at a gay men’s club playing “porno bingo.”
Single mom Louise Fielden boarded a flight to London Tuesday, but was forced to leave her son Samuel behind. She’s now filed a lawsuit in Brooklyn Federal Court for his return.
Fielden, 42, is suing the New York City Administration for Children’s Services, the New York Foundling Charitable Corporation, the City of New York, and the foster mother, claiming Samuel is being held “hostage and kidnapped in a foreign country,” according to court papers.
The London mom has also filed a lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court, claiming the officers who took her into custody used excessive force.
“They really manhandled her,” defense attorney Andrew Spinnell told the Post. “They didn’t extend her any courtesy at all, even though she was a cop. On the contrary, they beat her up […] and there appears to be some sort of cover-up happening as well.”
Fielden was also sexually assaulted as she awaited arraignment, Spinnell revealed, saying “another prisoner groped her breasts.”
The whole debacle began last April, after Fielden and Samuel checked into the Chelsea High Line hotel. It was there that an employee later discovered the baby alone in the room, asleep, and called the NYPD, the papers detail.
She was then arrested on charges of endangering the welfare of a child, resisting arrest, and possession of a controlled substance because she had some Codeine pills for which she holds a prescription.
The mother was accused of leaving the child alone for more than an hour in two different instances, but the London police officer says she left the child sleeping alone for only 30 minutes, when she went to clean his bottles in the hotel kitchen.
On the other occasion, she says the infant was just “one foot” away from her on the kitchen floor as she ate breakfast.
“In my culture and society in London this behavior of leaving a child for a short period of time is normal and acceptable,” Fielden–a 13 year veteran of the Metropolitan Police Services in London– said in an affidavit.
Samuel is now under the care of a Queens woman, who is co-founder and president of “Single Women in Support of Homos,” (SWISH). The “porno bingo” party was a fundraising initiative for the group, who support the LGBT community, the papers say.
Fielden, the product of a “conservative upbringing in the Church of England,” says the foster mothers’ views could not be farther from her own.
The suit ask for the transfer of baby Samuel to Fielden’s cousin in Bedfordshire, England, until an outcome is determined.
“This is a person who is on a much needed vacation, trying to enjoy themselves,” Spinnell said. “Instead, it turns into the shopping excursion from hell.”