Mom Wants Answers After Her Son Dies in Foster Care

The family of a 2-year-old Queens boy who died while in foster care Monday night is seeking answers in his mysterious death as conflicting documentation about his condition have been obtained. Phillip Payne died at a Jamaica foster home where he’d been placed just two weeks before, along with his older sister, on Dec. 26, and was pronounced dead at Jamaica Hospital Monday night. His mother, 32-year-old Tawana Burns, left the hospital again on Friday no closer to understanding how or why the toddler died. “I’m concerned because before this situation, my son was healthy,” she said.