Naked Brooklyn mother who threw kids from fire escape faces attempted murder charges
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The Brooklyn mother who on Saturday threw her two young children — including a newborn baby — to the courtyard of below her second-floor Brownsville in a harrowing incident now faces attempted murder charges, police said.
Dejhanay Jarrell, 24, was charged on Saturday with two counts of attempted murder, two counts of assault, two counts of reckless endangerment and acting in a manner dangerous to a child younger than 17, according to police.
Jarrell allegedly tossed her naked kids from the fire escape of her Rockaway Parkway apartment at about 11 a.m. Saturday, before jumping to the ground and continuing to harm the newborn girl after she fell on the courtyard concrete on her backside, according to police and witnesses.
Carl Chin, who lives in a row house adjoining the apartment building’s courtyard, came to the assistance of the pair of children, wrestling the baby out of the mother’s arms.
“She grabbed hold of the two kids and proceeded to hurt them more,” Chin told The Post on Saturday.
“She had the baby in her grip, and I had to take the baby out of her grip and hold her until the police and paramedics came,” he added. “As she was trying to hurt her children, and I was getting them out of her grip, she kind of thanked me and told me to take care of them.”
Chin, 41, said that the young mother told him she was “tired of being by herself” after the shocking incident, which left his sister-in-law “scared” and “traumatized.”
The 4-week-old baby girl survived the two-story fall, but was left in critical condition, and 2-year-old boy was left with non-life-threatening injuries, according to an NYPD spokeswoman. The mother and boy were taken to Brookdale Hospital, while the newborn was rushed to Maimonides Hospital, according to police.
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