WHITE PLAINS – A Yonkers woman was indicted by a Westchester County grand jury on Thursday on two misdemeanor counts of endangering the welfare of a child in connection with the death of her 23-month-old son.
Kenya Reed, 22, was charged following an investigation into the death of Alex Robinson, and the living environment that was discovered in their home on December 24, 2016.
Reed’s co-defendant, Blair Robinson, the victim’s father, walked into the emergency room at St. John’s Riverside Hospital in Yonkers carrying his son and reported that he was not breather. The child was pronounced dead an hour later.
When police went to the family’s home after the child’s death, they located his mother and her 10-month-old daughter in a bedroom where she lay in a cold room on a mattress with no sheets, and a bottle of curdled milk beside her. The child was dirty and suffered from severe diaper rash.
The apartment was filthy and unsanitary with rodent droppings all over kitchen. Bugs flew around inside the refrigerator.
The infant girl was taken to Westchester Medical Center for follow-up care.
When an autopsy was conducted, it was determined he died from blunt force trauma to his head and torso and that he had hemorrhages in his brain and internal organs. He also had marks on his back that appeared to have been a pattern caused by some kind of instrument with which he had been repeatedly struck.
Reed told police she witnessed Robinson beat her son until he was unconscious and detectives learned she did nothing to stop the attack.
When police located Blair Robinson on December 27, 2016, he admitted that he had kicked, whipped and beaten the child in his head and torso and that afterwards, he took a nap and then gone to work.
Robinson is in the Westchester County Jail while his case is pending. If convicted, he could face 25 years to life in state prison on a murder charge.
