(staten island )Little Samyah Bailey, who lost eye in shooting, does not have safe place to go, family says

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Samyah Bailey, recovering from gunshot wound to head, with her mother on Thursday.

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Michael Bailey carries daughter Samyah out of hospital.

The toddler who lost an eye in a shooting outside her Staten Island home was discharged from the hospital on Thursday - but her family said it didn't have a safe place to take her home to.
"We don't want to go back," said Michael Bailey as he cradled his 20-month-old daughter, Samyah. "We don't have nowhere to go. They want us to go back to the same area. That's foul. That's not right."
Samyah was sitting in her stroller licking a lollipop in the crowded courtyard at the Arlington Terrace Apartments last week when a beef about a young woman erupted in gunplay. The tot was shot in the head.
Bailey said authorities have not made good on promises to relocate them in another city-owned facility if they helped finger the 19-year-old suspect. "They all said they was gonna help us," Bailey said. "The police said it, the DA. ...Now she's getting released from the hospital and nobody's helping us."
He said the family would stay with a relative until it can find a new place to live.
Peter Spencer, spokesman for the Richmond County district attorney, said officials were working on it.
"Samyah's mother applied for relocation assistance with our office Tuesday, and we are working to facilitate that request," he said.
Bailey carried his daughter out through the revolving doors at Richmond University Medical Center after her miraculous recovery from brain and eye surgery.
The tot, dressed in a black-and-white striped top, pink vest, jeans and sneakers, appeared a little groggy as she sucked on her pink bottle.
The left side of her head was shaved and a semicircle of stitches ran from the top of her ear to above her left eye. There were also stitches across the bridge of her nose.
"She was anxious to get out of there and leave the hospital," said her dad, who was wearing a white T-shirt with "We Love You Miracle Baby" written on the back.
Michael Bailey Sr. just wants his granddaughter safe.
"I just want to see my granddaughter put somewhere safe where she can feel safe, where she can go outside and play without fear of being shot," he said.