A 4-year-old NYC girl was found dead early this morning with her arms and legs tied to a crib in her Brooklyn home.

Police were called to the Bedford-Stuyvesant home of 30-year-old Carlola Pierce around 7:30 a.m., where they found Marchella Pierce weighing only 15 pounds and tied with rope to the cribe in the filthy apartment.

Police said Marchella’s “legs were like sticks,” and you were able to see her ribs.  They said the girl appeared “underdeveloped with undeveloped lungs.”

Pierce told police when she checked on her daughter around 4:00 a.m. she was perfectly OK, but when she went back around 6:30 she found her unconscious.  She didn’t however explain to police why she waited an-hour-an-a-half to call 911.

Authorities say the little girl had bruises on her ankles, arms and wrists and there was an oxygen tank close to her but it was not connected.

It is believed that Children’s Services had visited Pierce’s home on two different occasions. Details of those visits were not available.

Pierce has two other children, one 5 and the other 9-months-old.

Charges have not been filed against Pierce, but police are still investigating the incident.

It is unclear whether her two other kids were taken into custody.

According to RadarOnline.com, Teresa Giudice’s sister-in-law accepted Andy Cohen’s offer to be in the third season of “The Real Housewives of New Jersey.”

The online gossip website says that Melissa Gorga, who lives larger than Teresa, minus foreclosure, will replace Dina Manzo, who left the popular reality show after Danielle Staub tried to have her daughter Lexi taken away.

Gorga is married to Teresa’s brother, Giuseppe, who is a real estate developer.

She lives in a $4 million home and has two live-in nannies in Montville.

The cast of NJ are threatening to go on strike if they do not get a raise in salary, profits from DVD and merchandise sales.

I wonder who is going to replace Danielle….let’s see……. Lisa G!  After all, she did a good job auditioning on camera last season.

A Canadian high school teacher has been arrested and charged with sexually exploiting at least one of his students in his Toronto home over the summer.

Authorities say the incident occurred in June.

It is believed that Agincourt Collegiate Institute teacher Peter Floro assaulted the student on three different occasions.

Authorities believe he also assaulted other students.

School officials have not made a statement as to whether he will continue to teach at the school, where he has been a teacher for the last four years.

A Connecticut man is accused of pulling a knife on a teller at a Bank of America branch in West Haven.

Police say Andrew Conti walked into the bank on Campbell Street and demanded to speak with the branch manager.

It is understood he told the female employee that he wanted to take his money out of the bank “right out” and he only wanted to speak with a male manager.

It is alleged that the 44-year-old then screamed expletives at the woman then pulled a utility knife at her.

He was arrested and charged with breach of peace, threatening and carrying a dangerous weapon.

The body of a New Jersey man who disappeared earlier this week while swimming in Asbury has been found.

Franky Lezin was about 30 yards off the city’s Second Ave beach and in about 10 feet of water when he disappeared Tuesday evening.

Lezin’s nephew told authorities that the two were swimming with a third person when his 23-year-old uncle disappeared.

Lezin’s body was recovered earlier today floating in a circle rip tide about 60 to 70 yards off shore.