Tag: Bronx
Student’s mom drags boy down hallway of Bronx school by the neck
MELROSE, the Bronx — An 8-year-old boy loved being a third grader at P. S. 146 in the Bronx until a classmate’s parent assaulted him.
Jalen Swinton fought with another classmate in the school cafeteria on April 26. The next day, the classmate’s mother walked into the school in the morning and found Swinton eating breakfast. She grabbed him and dragged him by the neck from the cafeteria and down the hall into the principal’s office.
The school never filed a police report, Sanavya Hodges – Swinton’s mom – told PIX11 in an exclusive interview.
“It’s sad,” she said. “I’m tired of crying.”
Her son has been absent from school since the incident.
“I have dreams about her and she is going to drag me again,” he said.
His mom believes assault charges should be filed against that parent.
She asked the school for an emergency transfer for her son, but was told it was a one time incident.
“I feel like they turned their backs on me when they should have been reaching out to me,” she said.
A Department of Education spokesperson said they NYPD is now conducting an investigation. The DOE is working with police on that.
“The safety of students and staff is our top priority and the school has followed protocol in addressing this incident,” the spokespersons said. “The family is being provided with ongoing support.”
via: http://pix11.com/2018/05/07/students-mom-drags-boy-down-hallway-of-bronx-school-by-the-neck/
Small child playing with stove started Bronx fire that killed 12
BELMONT, the Bronx — New York City’s deadliest fire in a quarter century was started by a small child playing with a stove, Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said Friday.
Twelve people, including five children, were killed and four others critically injured when a fire ripped through a five-story, walk-up apartment building at 2363 Prospect Ave. in Belmont Thursday night, Nigro said.
A 3-year-old boy with a history of playing with stove burners started the fire in a first-floor unit, according to Nigro.
The child’s mother heard him screaming, and was able to rush him and a 2-year-old out of the unit, but she left the door open, the fire commissioner said.
“This fire quickly spread up the stair,” Nigro said. “The stairway acted like a chimney. It took the fire so quickly up stairs, people had very little time to react. They couldn’t get back down the stairs. Those that tried, a few of them, perished.”
The lessons learned from the deadly incident are that children cannot be left unattended, and when fleeing a fire, people should always close doors behind them, Nigro said.
Fire crews arrived at the building a little more than three minutes after the blaze started, but it was too late.
Five people were later found dead inside, Nigro said.
Four people from a single family are among the dead, family members said.
A 1-year-old girl and 63-year-old woman who are related also died, police sources said.
The fire has been called the worst fire tragedy the “city has seen in at least a quarter century,” by Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Four people in critical condition continue to fight for their lives Friday, and 10 other civilians also suffered injuries.
About six firefighters and one EMT suffered minor injuries, officials said.
Because of the number of lives lost, Nigro called the fire, “historic in its magnitude.”
The investigation into the fire, including whether or not the building had working smoke detectors, continues.
NYPD tweeted out the number to call for anyone looking to contact a loved one who may have been affected by the blaze: “If you’re unable to reach someone who may have been impacted by the five-alarm fire at East 185th Street and Prospect Avenue in the Bronx, call 311 or 212-639-9675 from outside NYC.”
Bronx baby overdoses on her dad’s heroin while sleeping in his bed
FORDHAM HEIGHTS, the Bronx — A Bronx girl overdosed on heroin allegedly belonging to her dad while sleeping in his bed, prosecutors said.
The 1-year-old girl and her brother, 2, were in their dad’s bed when he was allegedly using heroin early Saturday, according to court documents. Some heroin spilled onto the bed and the baby girl ingested it.
“I was using heroin in the bed before my kids laid down,” Edgardo Rodriguez, 20, told police, court records show. “My kids were there. Some of it spilled onto the bed. It made a mess. I went to sleep. I don’t know how my daughter got in contact with the residue on the bed because I was high.”
The children’s grandmother and father noticed she was having trouble breathing around 8 a.m. and rushed the girl to the hospital, officials said. She was unresponsive by the time they arrived at St. Barnabas Hospital.
She was administered three doses of naloxone and placed on a Narcan drip. Doctors later transported her to Montefiore Medical Center where she remains in intensive care.
A white powdery substance was found on the comforter of the bed inside the Bronx apartment, according to court documents. Rodriguez also had a clear plastic bag filled with a white, powdery substance in his pants pocket. He told police it was heroin.
Rodriguez was charged with reckless endangerment, criminal possession of a controlled substance and endangering the welfare of a child.
A second baby also overdosed in the Bronx over the weekend. Her parents found a plastic bag in her mouth. No charges have been filed in that case.
Wife Was Strip Searched, Penetrated And Asked Where Did She Get Her Implants While Visiting Husband at Rikers
THE ACTUAL INTERVIEW IS IN THE LINK DOWN BELOW
A regular visit to her husband in jail turned into a nightmare for 26-year-old Jeannette Reynoso. The Bronx woman claimed that she was strip searched during her visit to Rikers Island last month and then violated by two female correction officers.
“I’m very scared that they did that and I’m afraid that they would do that to me again…or do it to anybody,” Reynoso said.
She said she had already cleared two metal detectors with no problem. The I-Team learned that the Department of Correction has a zero tolerance policy with regard to the mistreatment of visitors, yet Reynoso experienced the contrary.
“They told me to take off my clothes,” Reynoso said. “One correction officer took off my bra and my shirt first. Then she told me turn around to the wall and took off my pants and panties.”
In a civil lawsuit just filed, Reynoso claims the officers threatened to pull her visits for 45 days if she didn’t agree to take off her clothes.
“I started asking questions like, ‘Why do I have to take off all my clothes?’ They said, ‘You’re not here to ask questions. You just got to do what you’re asked to do,'” Reynoso said.
Reynoso broke down as she detailed how her experience got worse.
“I was shaking and that’s when I felt the other officer. She was like down on her knees and that’s when I felt her penetrate me. I turned around crying saying, ‘What are you doing? Why are you doing this to me?'”
In a bizarre twist, she says one of the officers then hugged her, and asked a question.
“One of the officers wanted to know when and where I got my plastic surgery,” she said.
The Bronx District Attorney’s office, which covers Rikers, is now looking into the case. Reynoso’s attorney Alan Figman said this amounts to detaining someone illegally.
“I think it’s outrageous,” Figman said. “I think that this woman is damaged for the rest of her life.”
We reached out to the union that represents correction officers but did not hear back.