ROSIE O’DONNELL is being branded a lousy mom after her mentally ill teen daughter vanished – and DAYS passed before the star reported her missing!
Even though Chelsea left her mom’s Nyack, N.Y., home without vital medication on Aug. 11, Rosie, 53, didn’t notify authorities for five days.
Then, on Aug. 18, she issued an Internet plea for help locating her missing adopted child. Lawmen found the 17-year-old the next day – hiding in the Barnegat, N.J., house of an ex-con and suspected heroin addict she’d met through an online dating service.
The cops traced the wayward teen through her cell phone. When an officer checked the place out, he says Chelsea’s online pal, 25-year-old Steven Sheerer, was evasive concerning the girl’s whereabouts.
But the officer found the teen hiding…
