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NYC mom charged with murder in shocking beating death of 6-year-old who begged for her life: cops
By Amanda Woods,
10 days ago
A Bronx mom was charged with murder in the brutal beating death of her 6-year-old daughter – who neighbors say had begged for her life before her shocking end, cops said.
Lynija Eason-Kumar , 23, was arrested Thursday in connection to the early-morning May 26, 2023 slaying of little Jalayah Eason inside the family’s squalid apartment at NYCHA’s Forest Houses, according to authorities.
The mother had initially told cops she found the girl cold and not breathing inside a closet in their 12th-floor unit on East 165th Street, sources said at the time.
Eason-Kumar claimed she tried to administer CPR, but Jalayah would not wake up, cops said.
EMS arrived 15 minutes later and rushed the girl — who had obvious bruising and trauma on her wrists and torso — to Lincoln Medical Center, but she couldn’t be saved .
Jalayah died of asphyxia and blunt force injuries, police confirmed Thursday.
Upstairs neighbor Dennis Rivera previously told The Post that he heard the 6-year-old girl “screaming for her dear life” during the early-morning beating.
“At 3:42 in the morning that girl was screaming,” Rivera said.
“She was screaming for dear life . . . She was screaming like hell.”
“She kept saying ‘stop, stop, stop.’ … You could hear the thumps, bro.”
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