Infant found badly beaten in home visted by child services
A 2-month-old Bronx boy suffered horrific injuries over the weekend in a home that’s been visited four times over the past two years by child services workers — and cops consider both parents suspects, police sources told The Post on Monday.
Emergency service units rushed to the home of Kadiha Marrow around 10 a.m. Saturday when his mother reported he was having trouble breathing, the sources said.
Ashley Rosario told cops that the baby’s father, Cimmie Wright, 23, came to visit him on Thursday evening about 7 p.m. and that she went to the store with her 2-year-old to purchase the baby’s milk. Wright, who has 11 prior arrests, is homeless, the sources said.
The mother said that when she left the apartment the baby was awake and the father was holding him in his arms. But when she returned 45 minutes later the baby was sleeping in his crib and the father was in the kitchen.
When the mom asked Wright if the baby was crying and if he changed the baby’s diaper, he ignored her, the sources said. She said the dad left at about 9 p.m.
The mom said she woke the baby for his feeding about two or three hours later, and that he was having trouble breathing. She said she continued trying to feed him every two to three hours and then finally called for help around 10 a.m.
Doctors at Mt. Sinai Hospital determined the baby suffered a list of injuries, including hemorrhaging of his eye, bleeding on his brain, a bruise above his left eye and swelling of his eyelid.
The family has a history with the city’s Administration for Children’s Services, which investigates suspected abuse, and has been visited four times by caseworkers.
Two cases of inadequate guardianship in 2015 and 2016 were found to be valid against the mom. Two other cases in 2016 for excessive corporal punishment and injuries consistent with child abuse were determined to be unfounded. The baby’s sister, Jaziah Marrow, 2, was listed as the victim in the cases, the sources said.
Wright’s prior arrests include one in March on a charge of assault with intent to cause physical injury in which Rosario was the victim at a prior address, the sources said. He was listed as homeless the last time he was arrested, police sources said.