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After deciding a 4-year-old Brooklyn boy's Friday death was suspicious, due to the bruising on his body, police have now charged his mother and her boyfriend with second-degree murder. Myrna Chen Phang, 25, and Steven Dadaille, 26, allegedly beat little Jayden Lenescar for two days, using their fists, a clothes hanger and belt. The boy's grieving father Mackenzy Lenescar said, "The only way I will feel anything is if someone could bring my son back."

Yesterday afternoon, emergency responders were called to a Crown Heights apartment about an unconscious 4-year-old boy. The child, Jayden Lenescar, was in cardiac arrest and later pronounced dead Kings County Hospital. Now the police are investigating his death as a homicide.

The ME's office will conduct an autopsy on a 2-month-old who died after being found unconscious in an apartment in the Wingate section of Brooklyn. According to the Daily News, the baby's father asked a neighbor to help revive baby Tuquan Bennett-Shuler, but the neighbor, John Mercano, "dialed 911 when he realized the newborn was near death." When FDNY EMS arrived, Tuquan didn't respond to CPR; he later was pronounced dead at Kings County Hospital. The News reports that police were questioning the baby's mother, "who has faced child abuse accusation," as well as the baby's father, who allegedly told Mercano that "the mother smothered the baby because the baby was crying too much."

A Parkchester resident was arrested for apparently killing her 4-year-old grandson. The Post reports that Angela Barksdale, who had three prior arrests, called 911 around 6 p.m. because little Kevion Shand wasn't breathing. He was pronounced dead at the scene, and, according to the Daily News, he may have been ignored and left unconscious for a day or longer (the News also says Barksdale's boyfriend finally called 911). Barksdale also claimed that the boy, whose mother is in jail, hit his head on the bathtub; the ME's office found he "died of blunt impact to the head and hemorrhaging under the skull." An outraged neighbor told the Post, "Children have become like paper. We just throw them away...They should dig a hole and bury the grandmother in it."

After a 3-year-old boy died, battered and sexually abused by his caretakers, fingers have pointed at his abusers, his parents, his neighbors and the Administration of Children's Services. Now lawmakers hope to new law can stop similar tragedies.