6YO Girl Found Dead In Bronx With Bruising All Over Body, Mother Being Questioned

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A 6-year-old Bronx girl died after she arrived at the hospital with bruising all over her body.

Jalayah Eason's mother called 911 just after 4 a.m. Friday, reporting the injuries.

Police responded to the Forest Houses in Morrisania and found the child unconscious in her mother's bedroom.

Authorities say she had bruising and trauma on her wrists and torso.

Detectives are questioning her mother but no charges have been filed, and the cause of the girl's death will be determined by the medical examiner.

The girl had been living in a squalid 12th floor apartment that was filthy and filled with clothes and other belongings strewn about.

A downstairs neighbor said she often heard crying from the apartment above.

Two other children, an 8-year-old boy and 3-year-old girl, have been removed from the household by ACS. The other children also appeared to have older injuries.

6-year-old girl found dead in Bronx with bruising all over body, mother arrested | abc7ny.com

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[McDanel]

What a beautiful face!

 

[Sugar Cookie]

The Bronx mom who was questioned about her young daughter’s death was released Sunday after being arraigned on a pair of child endangerment charges for allegedly abusing her other two children.

Lynija Eason — whose daughter, Jalayah Eason, was found unconscious and covered in bruises in the family apartment Friday — was released from Bronx Criminal Court with electronic monitoring after being slapped with two counts of acting in a manner injurious to a child younger than 17 years old.

She has not been charged in Jalayah’s death, which a police spokesperson said has not yet been ruled a homicide.

Neighbors say they heard the 6-year-old girl begging for her life during a 4 a.m. beating.

Eason called 911 about that time and told police she found the girl cold and not breathing inside a closet in their squalid 12th floor apartment at NYCHA’s Forest Houses on East 165th Street.

Authorities brought Jalayah to Lincoln Hospital, but she did not survive.

On Sunday, Eason appeared in Bronx Criminal Court on charges that she’d hurt her other two children: Jezheir Eason-Branch, age 8, and Jelyenn Eason-Harris, age 3.

NYPD Det. Frankie Hernandez wrote in the complaint that the two kids had cuts, scars and rashes when police visited the home May 26.

Jezheir had “countless small lacerations in various stages of healing on his back, scalp, arms and legs,” Hernandez wrote. The boy allegedly also had a cut on his forehead and a deep, partially-healed gash on his scalp.

Little Jelyenn had a “long, discolored scar” on her waist and a “widespread discolored rash to her inner thighs and buttocks,” Hernandez wrote.

The apartment was littered with trash, including soiled clothing and linen, open containers of food stacked up on the floor and other garbage, the complaint states.

Food rotted in the refrigerator and cabinets, insects infested the home and the place smelled of urine and feces, Hernandez wrote.

Eason told police she took care of her kids on her own, and no one else lived in the dwelling.

Cops brought her to the 42nd Precinct station house for questioning after they found bruises and other signs of trauma on Jalayah’s wrists and torso Friday.

Upstairs neighbor Dennis Rivera told The Post that he was alarmed by an early morning commotion Friday, and he heard Jalayah “screaming for her dear life.”

“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.”

NYC mom questioned over daughter’s fatal beating charged with abusing her other children

The Bronx mom who has been questioned over her young daughter’s death was released Sunday after being charged with a pair of child endangerment charges for allegedly abusing her other two chi…

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Thanks for being a pussy Dennis and not trying to save this baby.

 

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[runninfawn]

what a beautiful little girl ... how can anyone intentionally hurt little ones is beyond me ......... some people should never ever have given life or look after kids or animals maybe a pet rock but nothing alive

 

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Sad but probably true.

 

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23-year-old Lynija Eason-Kumar has been arrested in the death of her six-year-old daughter Jalayah Eason.

NYC mom charged with murder in shocking beating death of 6-year-old who begged for her life: cops

Lynija Eason-Kumar, 23, was arrested Thursday and faces two manslaughter charges – one related to the death of a child under 11 – in connection to the early-morning May 26, 2023 slaying of Jalayah.…

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Lynija Eason Kumar, 26, allegedly beat Jalayah Eason Kumar with a hard object while the girl’s hands and feet were bound as she hung in the closet in the 12th-floor apartment in the Forest Houses complex on May 26, 2023, according to a criminal complaint obtained by PIX11 News on Monday.

Investigators found the malnourished child with ligature marks on her wrists and new and old bruises covering her body at around 4 a.m., prosecutors said. The girl was rushed to a hospital but could not be saved.

The mother told detectives she found the child out of her bed on the floor near a closet, sources told PIX11 News at the time. The alleged abuse happened between March and May 2023, according to court documents.

In February, the medical examiner ruled Jalayah’s death a homicide. The cause of death was child abuse, including restraint, positional asphyxia, blunt force injuries, and malnourishment, prosecutors said.

The apartment was filled with dirty clothes, garbage, and open food containers. Authorities found rotten food in the cabinets and refrigerator, and the home crawled with insects. The apartment also reeked of feces and urine, officials said.

Jalayah’s two siblings, then 8 and 3, were in the apartment, and sources told PIX11 News they showed signs of abuse. The mom was charged with endangering the welfare of a child in connection to their injuries, according to court records. The siblings were placed in the custody of the Administration for Children’s Services after Jalayah’s death in 2023, sources said.

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[Busy Bee]

Jalayah, what a lovely child! So sad, Mr Rivera hears her “begging for her life” and doesn’t do anything? It would be so difficult to hear something like that, be that close and not call emergency or knock on her door, tear the door down! has funds for nails, tattoos & makeup but can’t keep her place clean! She doesn’t deserve the children! She sure looks a lot different in the last photo of her with a female law agent. No makeup, nails or photo filters!