1-month-old NYC boy starves to death, cops launch homicide investigation: officials

A 1-month-old Staten Island boy starved to decease complete nan summertime – and nan months-old lawsuit has been ruled a homicide, officials said this week. 

The babe – identified arsenic Joseph Heben Jr., of Main Street adjacent Craig Avenue successful Tottenville – died from “complications of terrible malnourishment,” nan metropolis Medical Examiner’s Office said Wednesday.

NYPD cops responded to Staten Island University Hospital’s southbound field astir 7 a.m. July 20, wherever infirmary unit informed them that nan babe arrived unconscious and unresponsive, constabulary said. 

Cops responded to Staten Island University Hospital’s southbound field connected July 20. Corbis via Getty Images

He succumbed to his injuries astatine nan hospital. 

Police person now launched a homicide investigation, though nary arrests had been made by Wednesday, authorities said. 

The metropolis Medical Examiner’s Office said Wednesday nan boy died from “complications of terrible malnourishment.” Google Maps

It was besides not instantly clear whether nan child’s parents were being questioned. 

In a akin lawsuit past month, Harlem parents Laron Modlin, 25, and Nytavia Ragsdale, 26, were some arrested successful nan starving decease of their 4-year-old boy Jah’Meik Modlin, authorities said. 

Ragsdale pleaded not blameworthy to execution successful nan 2nd degree astatine her Manhattan Supreme Court arraignment Wednesday.