A nurse is facing charges after a hospital father caught her on cellphone video slapping his baby face down in a crib.
Amanda Burke, 29, was fired just hours after her parents reported the incident at Good Samaritan Hospital of Suffolk County in New York.
The video captures only a fragment of the nurse’s actions through a window of the nursery in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit from February 6.
Burke appears to have flipped the baby over and then punched him in the face.
The father, Fidel Sinclair, said he was recording his 2-day-old baby at the time.
“I don’t know, it just broke me,” Sinclair said. “I did not know what to do”.
Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney later announced that Burke had been charged with endangering the welfare of a child.
Tierney described the charges as “truly disturbing.”
His attorney, Robert Gottlieb, said the charges are not “justified by the facts” of the case.
“The baby in this case is healthy and was never injured. Amanda is an exceptional nurse who has always cared for the babies in her care with love and compassion, and the evidence will show that beyond a shadow of a doubt,” Gottlieb said .
The baby, named Nikko, went home and is said to be doing well.
The district attorney said the Department of Education was notified, but Burke’s license as a registered nurse had not yet been suspended.
Sinclair said he felt as if God had put him in place at the right time to capture the incident.
Burke is scheduled to be arraigned on May 2.
Here’s a local news story about the incident:
Long Island nurse fired after allegedly stabbing baby in crib www.youtube.com
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