Two-month-old Baby Murdered In The Bronx

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Today marks one month after the death of two-month- old baby Sherling Camacho in a Bronx hospital from a long list of injuries.

Police found the daughter of a Dominican-born married couple in poor health on January 10 at her apartment on Honeywell Avenue in the West Farms neighborhood, after answering a 911 call. The person who called He said that the little girl had difficulty breathing.

"[His death] has been classified as a homicide. There are no arrests and the investigation is continuing,”Detective Ahmed Nasser of the New York Police Deputy Commissioner's office confirmed to People en Español.

The cause of death, Nasser said, was "a head injury."

In official reports, it was also said that the little girl had a fracture in the tibia, another in the spine, a damaged femur, a broken rib and a damaged retina, data that the detective confirmed.

Since her death, authorities have been trying to determine what happened to the newborn and who hurt her in such a way.

The suspects are various. Initially, his father, Manuel Camacho, a 28-year-old pizza delivery boy, was pointed out. He then pointed to the girl's 5-year-old brother, whose behavior has been described as "violent" by various sources.

Investigations now also include two new suspects: the baby's babysitter, 35; and Antonio Quintana, a relative of the 60-year-old family who lived at the same address.

"The only case that is open so far is in family court," attorney Jessica Cuadrado, who defends the child's mother, Katherine Camacho, 23, said of the investigation. "The mother must have known that something was going on with her baby, and that in itself is enough for there to be an abandonment investigation in court."

Cuadrado stressed that the family court deals with the case through the administration of children's services. “They are not criminal charges, they are abuse charges. There are no ramifications, there is no jail in family court”.

"No one is going to go to jail for [the family court case], they are going to go to jail in criminal court once they find out what happened," he added.

While the investigations continue, the younger brother of the minor remains separated from his mother in the care of relatives.

"In family court [the mother] she is still responsible," concluded Cuadrado, who is preparing to defend her client.