At her arraignment on Wednesday, the Manhattan mom charged with killing her burned and starved 4-year-old son was ordered to be held on bail. Prosecutors said the boy weighed only 19 pounds when he died.
Four charges were brought against Nytavia Ragsdale, 26, in Manhattan Criminal Court for reportedly letting Jahmeik Modlin slowly die of hunger. She was charged with second-degree manslaughter and three counts of endangering the welfare of a child.
“This condition lasted for a long time,” she said. “This condition did not happen in a short time.” This child has been without basic needs for a long time.
The government wanted her to be sent back to jail, but her lawyer, Naomi Oberman-Breindel of Neighborhood Defenders of Harlem, wanted her to be freed on controlled release or put up $5,000 bail.
For his son’s sad death on October 14, 25, Laron Modlin, the boy’s father, has also been charged with the same crimes.
At about 7:45 p.m. the day before, Modlin called the police to report that one of his children had passed out.
He was taken to Harlem Hospital by EMS, but doctors told the family that the boy was severely malnourished and “likely going to die within the next day or so.”
Medical staff at the hospital also found burns on the child’s chest and said he was cold, according to police sources.
Then he was taken to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital for care near the end of his life. The lawsuit said he died at 5:50 a.m. the next morning.
Both of Jahmeik’s parents say they never denied him or their other three children food, but the boy was only 19 pounds when he died, which is 80 pounds less than his mother thought.
The lawsuit also said she said he had been throwing up his food for months and then eating it. She told cops that she only fed him “small portions at a time” because he couldn’t keep food down and had diarrhea a few times a week.
He also said, “He must not have seen how sick his son was because he is always on his phone or playing video games,” according to the lawsuit.
Doctors who checked out the other kids, who were 5, 6, and 7, said they were “severely malnourished” too, just like their brother who died.
There are four kids, and the complaint says Modlin has three of them. The seventh child is not his, but he says he looks for him like a son.
The report said that none of the kids had ever been to school or been vaccinated.
The prosecutor, Buchanan, said in court that the three children who are still alive are all in the hospital and on IV water because they can’t eat real food.
“At this point, they can’t handle any solids,” she said.
The judge also gave the lawyers a restraining order for the kids, which means that the parents can only talk to their kids on the phone.
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Ragsdale’s next court date is October 18.
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