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 ›

Police are searching for a man who allegedly hit his three-year-old daughter with a brick in Brick, NJ. Edward Smith, 25, destroyed the child’s mother’s cellphone and stole her car after the Saturday night incident, and has been on the run since. Authorities believe Smith wasn't intentionally trying to hurt the little girl, who lost a tooth and needed stitches for a cut on her upper lip. more ›

Late Tuesday night, a four-year-old boy was shot in the chest during a botched robbery attempt outside a halfway house in the Bronx. Yesterday, authorities said that they wouldn't charge father Bobby Baltazar for shooting one of the attackers, 17-year-old Jose Marte, who he had chased down after his son Cincer had been shot. But things might not be that simple for Baltazar: “It’s a very close call. Generally speaking, you’re not allowed to shoot people in the back as they’re running away,” defense attorney Ron Kuby told the Daily News about Baltazar’s legal prospects. more ›

Late Tuesday night, a four-year-old boy was shot in the chest during a botched robbery attempt outside a halfway house in the Bronx. Bobby Baltazar and son Cincer were returning from having ice cream when three robbers confronted them at gunpoint in an apparent attempt to steal Balthazar's coat. The robbers' gun went off during a struggle with Baltazar, hitting Cincer; as the attackers fled, Baltazar picked up the gun and shot one of the teens in the head. But police say Baltazar won't be charged in that shooting: “The father was forthcoming. The reason he did what he did was because of his son, who was shot. He’s a victim now,” an official told the NY Times. more ›

A four-year-old Bronx boy was shot in the chest last night during a botched robbery attempt. Four-year-old Cincer Balthazar's father told police that the two of them were outside a halfway house at Grand Avenue and Evelyn Place around 10:30 p.m. when two or four—reports vary—men tried to rob them, and opened fire. According to police, the boy is now in critical condition. “He’s my world. He’s our little Spider-Man. He always walked around with a Spider-Man mask,” a woman who identified herself as the boy’s aunt told the Post. more ›

A Manhattan family will have to part with their beloved paper shredder after their toddler got his fingers caught in it, very nearly costing him his digits. Christopher Colon's mother, Scarlet De La Cruz, says she was shredding some documents yesterday morning and left the room after turning off the shredder. Her son wandered in, turned it on and stuck his fingers inside. "He was all the way in to his knuckles," De La Cruz said. "I thought the blade was cutting his fingers." Police used pliers to get his hands free, and Colon was unharmed, which wouldn't have been the case if the actual Shredder were after him. more ›

Ameen Foster, the father of the two-year-old beaten to death by his mother's boyfriend, was stunned to find his son had been killed, and only learned of it when his brother saw the story on the news and called him. "When I saw Aiyden last week he was fine. He was playing, running around, dancing....I had no idea [Teresa] was living with someone else." Reginald Williams, Teresa's boyfriend, has been charged with murder, and Teresa has been charged with assault after admitting to beating Aiyden with a belt. However, Foster said, "Teresa is not like that," adding he saw no signs of abuse when he last saw his son. more ›

A two-year-old was tragically beaten to death on Friday night in his Bed-Stuy apartment after allegedly refusing to recite the alphabet for his mother's boyfriend. The child, Aiyden Davis, was pronounced dead on arrival at Interfaith Medical Center after suffering blunt-impact injuries to his head, torso and extremities, a lacerated liver and internal bleeding. Both his mother, Theresa Davis, and her boyfriend, Reggie Williams, have been arrested. more ›

A two-year-old girl was tragically killed by an SUV driving down 211th Street in Queens yesterday after she strayed into the street while her grandmother and aunt's backs was turned. Neighbor and witness Yvonne Mckenzie called 911 after she saw the girl, Shamira Zaman, lying in the street and heard her family's screams. She told the Post, "Then they picked her up and put her on the grass. I saw the baby lying there. There was a little blood on her right forearm and right wrist but it wasn’t much. Then I ran inside and called 911." more ›

Guess what some parents like to do besides bring babies to bars? They take them to the library for toddler time—and at one Upper East Side branch, some have actually created counterfeit tickets. The Post exposed the frenzy at the Webster Library (York near East 78th) yesterday, "The matinee story time every Wednesday at the NYPL's Webster branch is so popular with toddlers that organizers had to switch to a color-coded ticket system because desperate mommies and nannies had started counterfeiting the numbered tickets." more ›

A 20-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter yesterday in connection to the fatal beating of a 17-month-old boy. Pedro Jones was babysitting his girlfriend's child at the Shinnecock Indian Reservation on Sunday, and killed him "by striking him several times throughout his body with his closed fists and grabbing him by the neck," according to court documents. When asked why, Jones said, "I was trying to make him act like a boy instead of a little girl." more ›

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly says that Jayleen Jones, the two-year-old girl shot in the leg outside her apartment complex in Coney Island on Sunday, was the unfortunate victim in a vengeful crossfire. Kelly says suspects Devin Dortch and Vincent Carmona "were shooting at another individual, who supposedly was a robbery victim earlier in the day. Whatever dispute they had, they came back to settle it." Jones was riding her bike in the courtyard of the O'Dwyer Gardens Houses at 10 p.m. when the gunfire started, and is recovering at North Shore-Long Island Jewish Medical Center after being shot in the leg. more ›

Police have apprehended two suspects in connection with a shooting in Coney Island on Sunday night, which left a 2-year-old girl in the hospital after she was shot in the leg. Dortch Devin, 17, was charged with reckless endangerment, criminal possession of a weapon and menacing, while Vincent Carmona, 24, was charged with assault, reckless endangerment, criminal possession of a weapon, menacing and criminal trespassing. more ›

A two-year-old girl was shot in the leg yesterday outside the same apartment complex where a mother of seven was fatally shot in the head. Witnesses at the O'Dwyer Gardens Houses on West 35th street say after a group of kids robbed another child, the victim's friends came looking for revenge. Shots rang out around 10 p.m., leaving two-year-old Jayleen Jones with a bullet in her right leg. Jones' aunt said, "She was riding her bike around the bullets came flying." more ›

In the pantheon of petty criminals, there are your granny-attackers, your "pint-sized punks," and of course your classic vampire robbers. But none of them compares to the man who assaulted a three-year old developmentally delayed girl last year—for her necklace. more ›

After falling three stories onto a terrace on Saturday, 2-year-old Ebrahim Aburawi is doing fine at Bellevue Hospital. The child, son of Libyan diplomat Mohamed Aburawi, tumbled out of the 18th floor window after escaping his stroller while his mother was reportedly in the bathroom. However, the Buildings Department has issued a violation to the building's owner for not installing window guards in the apartment, which are required in any apartment where a child under the age of 11 lives. more ›

A 2-year-old boy is in critical condition at Bellevue Hospital after falling three stories from an 18th floor window onto a terrace below yesterday. There are conflicting reports as to how Ebrahim Aburawi, the son of a Libyan diplomat, managed to fall from the window. The Daily News says he broke free of his mother's grasp as she attempted to strap him into a stroller, and "dove out an open window into a free fall." According to the Post, his mother was in the bathroom at the time, and emerged to find her son had fallen. more ›

A 3-year-old autistic boy has survived after falling either three or four stories from his family's apartment at 1062 Huntington Avenue in Schuylerville last night. His fall was cushioned by surrounding trees, and State corrections Officer Jay Mandel, who lives in the same building, heard the crash and found the child. He was taken to Jacobi Hospital for treatment of non life-threatening injuries. more ›

A 14-month-old boy was pulled from his family's Staten Island pool in cardiac arrest yesterday afternoon. WABC 7 reports that little Vincent Fougere " found by his parents floating in the pool wearing only his diaper." Luckily, the local firehouse was nearby and a neighbor, who heard the screaming parents, ran over there for help. more ›

A California tourist jumped into the East River after his 2-year-old daughter, who’d fallen 20 feet from the gangplank of a ship docked at South Street Seaport. David Anderson “didn’t hesitate” before taking to the water, though he did remember to “pull things out of his pockets” and kick off his shoes. He was able to grab the toddler, aided by an unnamed Frenchman, who helped drag the two to safety, according to the police. more ›

A Queens tot toddled home alone, and though he made it back without incident, his mother thinks the school should pay. Michelle Baylor is taking the city and PS 147 principal Anne Cohen to court for unspecified damages, claiming she should never have dismissed the 4-year-old without first checking whether he had an escort. In October 2009 the boy's grandfather spotted him outside, after he'd walked the two blocks home from his kindergarten, reports the News. In the meantime, Baylor went to pick him up from school, where the principal "panicked" when asked why he wasn't there. Later the mom confronted Cohen, who complained the school was understaffed. "She started talking to me about budget cuts, and I just wasn't interested in hearing that," said the outraged parent. more ›

Yesterday, the Medical Examiner's office said that a 22-month-old girl who was found unconscious in a Bronx apartment and later died from terrible injuries had been killed. Now police have arrested the boyfriend of the toddler's mother and he has been charged with second-degree murder. The Daily News reports that Ramel Green said in a videotape confession, "I knocked her in the stomach with my elbow. She had her eyes open, but she wasn't breathing." more ›

The medical examiner's office says that a 22-month-old girl found unconscious in a Bronx apartment early Saturday was killed. According to the NY Times, the child, Sanaa Brewington, "died of blunt compact injuries to the torso, with lacerations of the liver, spleen, pancreas and duodenum... The police said the companion of the girl’s mother had fallen asleep while taking care of the girl in an apartment in Soundview, in the Bronx. He woke to find her unresponsive." After the toddler's grandmother called 911, Sanaa was taken to the hospital where she was pronounced dead. The NYPD and Administration for Children's Services are investigating. UPDATE: The mother's boyfriend was arrested. more ›

A Bronx dad had to literally stomp a Husky off his toddler son as the boy was being brutally attacked by the dog more than twice his size while the pooch's owner idly watched nearby. 32-year-old Jeremiah Kendall tells the Daily News how he briefly took his eyes off of his 3-year-old son Kamrin Thursday night around 9 while in front of their Hunts Point home, only to turn around and see the 120-pound unleashed white Husky on him. He says, "My son's face was full of blood. I saw cuts on his eyes, face and nose." The older Kendall had to jump in, kicking the dog and even punching it in the face to get it off of his son. Animal control ended up putting the dog down, while its owner, 23-year-old Louis Delez, is facing charges for reckless endangerment. The News has a heartbreaking photo of young Kamrin as he recovers at Lincoln Hospital. Mr. Kendall did not sound too thrilled with Delez, telling the paper, "He was closer to the dog than me. I'm upset he didn't do anything." more ›

A toddler is in critical condition after being struck last night by a hit-and-run driver in the Woodhaven section of Queens. A two-year-old girl wandered away from her house where she was with family around 9:30 p.m. and found her way onto the Rockaway Boulevard and 185th Street intersection where she was hit. The vehicle drove off and the girl remained lying in the street until another driver spotted her and called police. The girl was rushed off to Jamaica Hospital where she remains in critical condition. No witnesses were able to get a description of the vehicle. Police urge anyone with information to call, text or visit the Crime Stoppers website. more ›

A total no-brainer: The family of 17-month-old boy who was shot in the arm by an off-duty police officer has filed a notice of claim against the city. The Porcellini family will also pursue action against the NYPD and 24-year-old police officer Patrick Venetek. more ›

A family had been living in its Mill Basin, Brooklyn apartment for less than a week, when their 18-month-old toddler was struck by a bullet that passed through its ceiling from an upstairs apartment Thursday afternoon. Their upstairs neighbor is 24-year-old police officer, an Army veteran assigned to Manhattan's 1st Precinct, named Patrick Venetek. more ›

A 2-year-old boy who had crawled out of his Queens apartment through an open window and onto a fire escape fell six stories to his death yesterday morning. His mother had been taking a shower. Neighbors tried to comfort Ezquel Contreras, who was bleeding extensively and was later pronounced dead at Elmhurst Hospital. The neighbors also said that the child's mother, Sandra Perez, didn't seem to realize her son was gone, since she didn't come... more ›