Bx. baby’s death ruled a homicide
Efforts to revive the child on a pedestrian walkway were unsuccessful The death of a seven- before Mason month-old Bronx boywas rushed to found floating in the East NewYork-Presbyterian River was declared a ho- Lower Manhattan micide nine months af- Hospital where doctors ter his horrifying demise could not save his — and his father’s sud- life. den flight to Thailand. Currie fled the
The official cause of country the next day, death was listed Friday but was detained by as“homicidal violence of authorities upon arrival undetermined type,” ac- in Thailand, authorities cording to the city Medi- said. There cal Examiner. was no word on any
Dad James Currie, 37, new charges against was arrested last August him. on charges of conceal- Currie was allegedly ment of a human corpse embroiled in a custody in the death of little Ma- fight with Mason’s son Saldana once au- mother before the thorities returned himboy’s death. Video from Thailand to New showed the infant was York. The infant’s body alive when he arrived was spotted beneath the at his father’s home on Brooklyn Bridge on Aug. Aug. 4. One day later, a 5, 2018, with an Okla- video camera caught homa tourist diving into Currie leaving his the river and bringing home with a backpack the lifeless boy ashore. and walking toward the East River. death. He claimed he
A few hours later, Ma- dropped the baby off son’s mother reported to with the child’s grandmother. police that the baby had not been returned to her. “Do you think a father
Currie, in an August can hurt — hurt my own 2018 interview with the son?” asked Currie. “I Daily News, insisted he wanted him to succeed. was a doting dad and de- To be better than what I nied any role in hisamnow.”