Babysitter, worked in a residential complex in Kips Bay in Manhattan, is accused in the attempted murder of two month old baby.
Marianne Benjamin Williams, who came to the US from Israel 11 years ago, told investigators that the child was in the room with his one year old brother and suddenly began to choke. Then she performed the Heimlich maneuver (first aid, when a person choked) and called the child’s mother, so she called 911.
«He loves to chew on baby wipes,» said Marianna police. In her opinion, it is the elder brother pushed the napkin into the throat of the baby.
Fortunately, the baby was rescued — doctors removed a paper ball from the throat of the child. Doctors believe that the tissue pushed deliberately, pushing into the windpipe. But they claim to have an older child who is a year and two months would not be enough force on it and certainly would not have had the length of his fingers.
During the investigation, the officers arrested is the boys babysitter, the only adult who was in the apartment at the time.
Yesterday she was charged with attempted murder, assault, strangulation, threat to the life and health of the child, the district attorney of Manhattan.
In addition, it was found that a nanny is wanted by Immigration and customs service (ICE) for an expired visa.
«No one — neither the district attorney nor my client doesn’t know how the cloth got into the throat of the child,» he told DNAinfo New York lawyer of the accused, Leonard Levenson, adding that his team carefully checks the surroundings of the mother of the children.
«We have information that the mother was depressed — both because of their own business after the birth of a child. And the baby had a broken arm in the first month of his life, when my client worked for this family. We find out, had to do with the mother», — said the lawyer.
Now Marianne Benjamin Williams was in prison on Rikers Island. The judge set her bail in the amount of 100 thousand dollars. The next court hearing will take place on 15 August.
