NYC mom accused of starving her 4-year-old son to death hit with murder charge

The Manhattan mom accused of starving her four-year-old boy to death was indicted connected execution charges Wednesday — arsenic prosecutors said her 3 surviving children are slow recovering.

Nytavia Ragsdale, 26, pleaded not blameworthy to execution successful nan 2nd grade astatine her Manhattan Supreme Court arraignment for allegedly sidesplitting mini Jah’Meik Modlin, who prosecutors opportunity weighed conscionable 19 pounds erstwhile he died connected Oct. 14.

Ragsdale starved Jah’Meik and his siblings, ages 5, 6 and 7, for 2 years — and nan older kids were truthful malnourished erstwhile authorities recovered them that they couldn’t provender themselves aliases grip utensils, Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Heather Buchanan said successful court.

Nytavia Ragsdale, 26, is now charged pinch execution for allegedly sidesplitting her four-year-old boy Jahmeik Modlin. Pool photograph by Gregory P. Mango

“Since admittance to nan hospital, each kid has gained much weight successful nan past 2 weeks than they did successful nan past 2 years,” Buchanan said, noting nan surviving kids are still connected a liquids-only diet.

Ragsdale, who is charged on pinch Jah’Meik’s begetter Laron Modlin, 25, shed a azygous tear arsenic prosecutors described nan heartless couples’ Harlem flat — wherever they purposely turned a fridge stuffed pinch caller nutrient against a wall truthful that their kids weren’t capable to unfastened it.

The sadistic brace sealed room cabinets containing nutrient pinch zip ties, isolated from for 1 that contained cleaning supplies — each while stuffing their their faces “on a regular and regular basis” arsenic they starved their children, prosecutors alleged.

Both Ragsdale and Modlin were besides receiving aesculapian attraction connected a regular ground contempt their children only past visiting a expert successful August 2022.

Little Jah’Meik slipped into unconsciousness astatine their flat disconnected Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard adjacent West 144th Street connected Oct. 13, and died nan adjacent greeting astatine nan infirmary owed to malnutrition, dehydration and starvation, authorities person said.

Medical unit astatine Harlem Hospital besides recovered a pain people connected nan child’s chest, and added that he suffered from hypothermia, constabulary sources said.

His parents claimed they ne'er denied Jah’Meik aliases his siblings foods contempt nan boy weighing only 19 pounds erstwhile he died — 80 pounds little than his mother believed, according to a criminal complaint.

Nytavia Ragsdale pinch small Jahmeik, who died Oct. 14.

None of nan kids person ever been vaccinated aliases attended school, prosecutors person said.

Judge Ann Thompson remanded Ragsdale, who initially faced a manslaughter rap, to Rikers Island aft prosecutors had asked for her $100,000 rate bail to beryllium revoked owed to nan upgraded charges.

“The decease of Jah’Meik Modlin, an guiltless four-year-old child, is simply a calamity that has scarred this city. That he died a slow and achy death, starving alongside his older siblings, someway isolated successful nan bosom of Harlem, is simply a stain connected our corporate conscience,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said successful a statement.

Ragsdale besides faces a caller battle charge. She faces up to life successful situation if convicted of execution successful nan 2nd degree.

Modlin is group to beryllium arraigned connected Nov. 14.