Toddler on life support; Father held without bail in beating case
By Jaysha Patel, WABC Staff
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NEW YORK (WABC) — A father in Queens claims he was drunk when his 2-year-old son was beaten so badly that he ended up on life support in the hospital.
Dayvon Morrison, 30, was arraigned on attempted murder and assault charges Wednesday morning. He was ordered held without bail.
Morrison apparently said he was drunk, and when he woke up, he saw “multiple bruises on the victim’s face but did not seek medical attention at that time.”
He said, “he must have hit the victim but doesn’t remember because he was intoxicated.”
The beating is alleged to have occurred inside the Manhattan View Hotel, which is now operating as a shelter, sometime on Friday night.
Instead of going to get his son help, Morrison allegedly took the child in a stroller to East Harlem Saturday morning.
The boy did not get medical care until early Monday morning.
Police responded to a 911 call near East 102nd Street and Third Avenue on Monday at around 3 a.m. and found the boy with severe head trauma.
The victim is on a ventilator with a “blown right pupil, fractured pelvis, laceration to the liver, damage to the brain stem, multiple brain bleeds and swelling to the brain, among other injuries.”
The boy’s mother posted on social media asking for prayers: “My baby is fighting for his life in the ICU please, I can’t do anything but pray.”
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