$10G benefit for jail guard in beat-slay
INSTEAD OF celebrating his birthday, young Jaden Jordan was suffering unspeakable abuse at the hands of his mother’s boyfriend, his family said Monday.
Just two days after the 3-yearold Jaden was taken off life support and died, his heartbroken father Guseyn Aliyev was focused on the grim details of burying the little Brooklyn boy.
One of the most difficult aspects to reconcile, he said, was that the mother’s boyfriend, Salvatore Lucchesse, allegedly beat Jaden into a coma the day after the boy’s birthday.
If Jaden couldn’t have a decent birthday, Aliyev said, he wanted the boy to at least have a proper funeral.
“I’m raising money for all the medical expenses and to give a proper funeral and burial for my 3-year-old son Jaden Jordan who was viciously murdered,” Aliyev said on a post accompanying a GoFundMe account he established online.
The account, which was also created to help pay for medical expenses, said the family is trying to raise $30,000.
Jaden turned 3 on Nov. 27, two days after authorities received an anonymous tip that the boy had been forced to stay inside a dog cage and was menaced by a pit bull.
But child welfare agents received the wrong address — they went to the home next door — and left without taking any action.
The Administration for Children’s Services worker figured out the right address Nov. 28, the same day emergency workers took Jaden to Coney Island Hospital with a fractured skull.
“It’s messed up,” said Aliyev’s brother Emin, the boy’s uncle. “Nobody in the house knew about this? This is weird. The mother comes home. She doesn’t see marks on the child? You don't see any marks on your child?”
Cops charged Lucchesse with four counts of assault and endangering the welfare of a child. The charges are expected to be upgraded to murder.
Lucchesse, 24, has admitted he was in charge of baby-sitting Jaden for the boy’s mother, Raven Haynes, at the time of the tragedy — but insisted to cops he did not hurt the boy, according to police sources.
He told authorities he tried to save the boy’s life by performing CPR and dialing 911 when the boy slipped and hit his head in the bathtub.
City Controller Scott Stringer said his office is examining ACS to see if the agency had acted on any reforms recommended in June when an audit uncovered shoddy, inconsistent and incomplete investigations into child abuse.
The agency came under fire two months ago after the death of 6-year-old Zymere Perkins.
Zymere died Sept. 26 after being beaten with a broomstick in his Harlem apartment. His mother, Geraldine Perkins, 26, and her boyfriend, Rysheim Smith, 42, were hit with endangerment charges related to the boy’s death. A FORMER Rikers Island correction officer who allegedly held an inmate down on the ground during a deadly beating got a $10,000 workers’ compensation payout from an injury related to the incident, court proceedings revealed.
Anthony Torres testified Monday against his former coworker Brian Coll, who faces federal civil rights charges in the Dec. 19, 2012, beating death of Ronald Spear — as well as an alleged coverup.
Coll maintains innocent.
Spear, who had diabetes and end-stage renal disease, wanted to see Rikers infirmary doctor early that December morning.
Coll, now 46, stopped him and said the doctor couldn’t see him — sparking an altercation and ultimately, Spear’s death, prosecutors charge.
Coll kicked and punched Spear, prosecutors said.
Two other correction officers — Torres and Byron Taylor — held him to the floor while Coll continued to kick Spear's head, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office claims.
Spear, 52, died shortly after the beating.
Right after the incident, Coll told investigators Spear attacked him, but made no mention of kicking the sick inmate. he’s