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The Daily News has an account of yesterday’s brazen, broad daylight home invasion robbery of a 19 yr old babysitter, and her 4yr old charge in their 5th avenue apartment on 78th street – all before noon.

19yr old Rosa Gonzalez was apparently babysitting her 4yr old cousin, Danny Cortizar, when two men knocked on the door of their apartment posing as construction workers there to fix a leak.

After gaining entry, the pair of men held them at gunpoint, demanded money, then bound the two victims with duct tape.

The victims were bound for about an hour, and the pair escaped with 600 in cash, and some jewelry.

This all comes less than a week after Senator Martin Golden and Deputy Inspector Eric Rodriguez of the 68th precinct held a forum on a recent spike in burglaries.