A STATEN ISLAND mom is making media headlines in the United States over the weekend after suing the city of West Brighton for US$900 trillion, alleging the city improperly placed her two children in foster care.

    The US$900 trillion figure was first reported by New York Post.

    The entire United States. has an annual gross national income of just over US$14 trillion.

    Fausat Ogunbayo sued the city and the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), alleging that both entities violated her and her children’s civil liberties by placing them in foster care in June 2008. In her lawsuit, Ogunbayo listed her grievances as follows:

    “For causing plaintiff substantial economic hardship; for causing plaintiff substantial economic injuries; for depriving plaintiff and plaintiff children’s Civil Right, 42 U.S.C. section 1983; for depriving plaintiff and plaintiff’s children, the right to family integrity; for depriving plaintiff and plaintiff’s children, the right to life, liberty, property and the right guaranteed by statute; for disregarding the probability of plaintiff’s children, suffering emotional and mental distress.”

    The city has not responded to Ogunbayo’s lawsuit but contends that she is mentally ill and unable to properly care for her two boys, who are now teenagers.

    Ogunbayo was alleged to have suffered from hallucinations, refuses mental health treatment and placed her children at risk by leaving them at home for several hours each day.

    Ogunbayo was also alleged to have written to her children’s former school, insisting that the FBI and Secret Service were after her children and that their skin was becoming darker due to radiation exposure.

    Ogunbayo is representing herself in the case.

    (SD-Agencies)