Mayor Eric Adams defends NYC’s child protection agency as it comes under fire — including over girl trapped in corpse-filled house of horrors

Mayor Eric Adams unapologetically defended the city’s Administration for Children’s Services — even after a 4-year-old girl was left trapped in a Bronx house of horrors with the corpses of her mom and young brother.

“I stand with my employees in ACS,” Adams said Tuesday during his weekly news briefing at City Hall. 

Hizzoner’s vote of confidence came after Promise Cotton, 4, was miraculously found alive April 18 in a putrid apartment with the bug-covered bodies of her mother Lisa Cotton, 38, and brother Nazir Millien, 8.

Child services workers had knocked on the apartment’s door just one day before, but had walked away, neighbors told The Post.

“They didn’t do s–t,” one neighbor said.

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Cotton had a pending ACS case for alleged child neglect before she was found dead, law-enforcement sources said.

ACS has come under fire several times during Adams’ mayoralty, including when special-needs boy Brian Santiago, 10, starved to death after his mother — who was investigated by the agency and had her son temporarily removed from her care — overdosed.

One whistleblower contended to The Post that ACS had “deprioritized investigations into child welfare” in favor of misguided social justice.

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Adams acknowledged the latest case was “horrific” and said it would be investigated.

But he then appeared to argue the real outrage is ACS not getting the credit for their tough jobs.

“They saved thousands of lives because of the action,” he said.

“And you know how many people stand up and applaud them? When was the last time we wrote a story that applauds the men and women of the ACS that have saved the lives of children?”