A teenager who is charged with killing his girlfriend's two-year-old son last month has now also been accused of killing a different girlfriend's infant daughter in 2010. Tyree Wright, 19, has been arrested for the death of two-year-old Jacquil Degraffenreid—Wright is accused of repeatedly hitting him in the torso while the boy's mother was at work. Now, Nyemah Nickens claims Wright also is responsible for the death of her 7-month-old child—a crime for which Nickens has spent 18 months at Rikers Island. more ›

Last week, the Brooklyn district attorney confirmed that prosecutors are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a two-week old infant who died last fall in Brooklyn after he contracted herpes from a religious circumcision at Maimonides Medical Center. As we noted, the case sounded eerily similar to that of Rabbi Yitzchok Fischer, a Rockland County mohel who was found to have given three babies herpes through the ritual several years ago. Prosecutors have noticed that as well, and just announced they were investigating Fischer in connection to the baby's death—and it turns out that Fischer has continued performing the controversial religious circumcisions despite a court order to stop. more ›

This week, the Brooklyn district attorney confirmed that prosecutors are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a two-week old infant who died last fall in Brooklyn after he contracted herpes from a religious circumcision at Maimonides Medical Center. Now, rabbis are worried that the investigation may send mohels who perform the metzitzah b’peh ritual into back alley circumcisions: “The worst thing that could happen is if the authorities regulate this practice, then it could go underground,” Rabbi David Zwiebel, the executive vice president of Agudath Israel of America, told the Times. more ›

Police say they found an infant girl abandoned in a Brooklyn apartment building just after midnight earlier today. The baby, believed to be about six months old, was found in front of a seventh-floor apartment at W. 33rd Street building in the O'Dwyer Houses; near her were a broken cell phone and a mini Vodka bottle. “She was cute. She was dressed in pink. She didn't even have shoes on, just socks," Angel Cruz told the News. more ›

Four children, including an eight-month-old girl, were injured in an early morning Harlem fire yesterday. The fire broke out on the fifth floor of the six-story building at Manhattan Avenue and W. 115th Street. "My dog woke me up barking and when I went into the hall it was black with smoke. I felt the flames on my face. I was terrified," said resident Shaun Holbrook, who was able to escape down a fire escape with his dog in his arms. more ›

This week, the one-month-old child of a Long Island TV news host, as well as the infant's babysitter, were both found dead in an incident police are calling "a tragic accident." Authorities now believe that baby Michael, son of reporter Michael Baldwin II, died after the obese babysitter collapsed on top of him. "The woman was described as extremely heavy. She was extremely large-breasted...Because of the amount of flesh, it could have caused the baby to suffocate," said Detective Lt. Gerard Pelkofsky. more ›

"This kid has been my life. And now, my boy is gone," Baldwin told Newsday. more ›

Trevor Mann, the 26-year-old who reportedly held his 2-month-old son hostage while waving a burning Christmas tree branch over his head, insists that the cops got it all wrong. Cops said he threatened to hurt his son if the police didn't leave, but Mann said from the psychiatric ward at Bellevue Hospital that he told the cops he wasn't going to hurt his son. Mann's girlfriend also blames the infant's injuries on the police. Mann's son suffered a broken arm, and his girlfriend told the Daily News, "[Cops] pulled him out of his arms and broke his arm." more ›

We're sensing a trend; if someone runs a red light, chances are they're up to something much worse. A 26-year-old father has been arrested after running a red light, leading cops on a chase that ended in his holding his 2-month-old son "hostage" and setting his family's Christmas tree on fire. Tredon Mann was charged with felony assault, assaulting an officer and arson after the debacle, which began last night with him running a red light at a Flatbush intersection and smashing his car into another van. more ›

A Brooklyn infant died last night after he was given over-the-counter cough medicine. Police believe 4-month-old Daniel Richardson's death was an accident; his Aunt, who was babysitting him Thursday in Bushwick, gave the infant the syrup for a cough, and said he didn't have any other health issues. She tearfully told the News, "I was the one who gave the baby the medicine, and I'm the one being investigated. I can't believe this happened. I didn't do anything wrong. I don't know. I gave the baby medicine. I was baby-sitting. I don't know." more ›

Yesterday, a 6-month-old baby died after being struck by a falling branch near the sea lion exhibit at the Central Park Zoo. Baby Gianna Riccuitti died almost instantly while her mother Karla DelGallo, who was also struck and hospitalized, is now in stable condition. Witness Trung Tran said he heard a crack, and watched as the branch fell about 40 feet while DelGallo attempted to run away. He told the Daily News, "I heard someone say, 'Watch out!' I heard the branch cracking." more ›

Police have charged parents Karill Savery, 30, and Leonardo Reyes, 34, with endangering the welfare of a child after they left their 8-month-old son in a parking lot on East 161st Street in the Bronx yesterday. Ezra Isiah Reyes, left in a stroller, was spotted by sunglass vendors sitting outside the courthouse, who brought him into the DA's office. Vendor Lorenzo Carse told the Daily News, "I'm a father. How could somebody leave their child like that?" Actually, they simply forgot. more ›

The Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a warning about infant slings today. The agency noted that babies under the age of four months do not have have much neck control, so they may suffocate from while in the sling. The sling-style carriers are popular, because they allow the babies to be close to the parents' chest and are not as bulky as other structured carriers—some parents even brag about not putting their babies in "conventional" strollers. more ›

The infant held outside a fifth-story window during a Bronx apartment fire escaped the blaze unscathed. "My baby is doing fine," said Saschelle Hewitt, whose cousin dangled her 7-month-old daughter Zaniyah Alexander out a window so the child wouldn't suffocate. "She's the only one without bumps and bruises." more ›

A fire ripped through a Bronx public housing project yesterday afternoon, forcing a woman to dangle a baby out of a fifth-story window while she waited for rescuers to arrive. The blaze broke out at around 2 pm inside a closet in an apartment in the Pelham Parkway Houses and quickly spread through the three-bedroom residence, sending victims to the windows gasping for air. more ›

The heroic mom who tossed her two children out the window rather than let them perish in the flames, was one of the five fatalities of a three-alarm fire in Brooklyn yesterday. Fire officials are now saying the blaze—which also hospitalized 13 firefighters—could be a case of arson. The two-month old girl who was thrown by her mother from a third-floor window fractured her skull, but is expected to survive. Her brother escaped from the fire unscathed. more ›

When police broke up a sex trafficking ring in Sunset Park back in November, they discovered the body of an infant encased in cement, sealed inside a Rubbermaid storage unit. At the time, police believed the infant died from lack of medical care denied by his mother's pimps. Today, the News reports that the boy was beaten to death. more ›

The city's Administration for Child Services is looking into the death of an 11-month-old boy who passed away in Cypress Hills on Monday night. Police responded to a call of an infant having difficulty breathing at around 8:30 pm, but when they arrived, the baby was already being moved to Brookdale Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The child — whose name was Major Gonzalez, according to NY1 — had a bruise on his forehead. The station reports that the parents are being questioned, and further testing is required before investigators will be able to determine a cause of death. The Post reports that the parents have been charged with endangering the welfare of a child. more ›

Investigators uncovered the remains of an infant encased in cement and a Rubbermaid container when they broke up a suspected sex trafficking ring in Sunset Park. Federal prosecutors allege that Domingo Salazar, 33, smuggled a young Mexican woman into the country, forced her to turn tricks, and then refused to provide medical care for their three-month-old baby — whose remains were recovered in their 40th Street apartment on Tuesday. more ›

A family walking along the side of the road in Queens was struck by a car that witnesses claimed was doing 90 m.p.h. After plowing into the family, which included an infant, the driver continued on, perhaps neglecting to notice the baby that was hurled into the air and a the male friend of the mother who was killed. more ›

Now that Carlos Cruz is sitting on Rikers Island, charged with paying $1,000 to have his cousin murder his ex-girlfriend in front of their son, the remorse is flowing. Cruz gave a jailhouse interview to the Daily News, "It wasn't supposed to happen like that. I was just trying to scare her." more ›