29-year-old Amanda Burke was fired from her nursing gig at Good Samaritan Hospital after the video circulated. Now, she has been charged.
Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney announced that Amanda Burke, of Holbrook, had been charged with a single count of endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor, in the Feb. 6The infant's father, Fidel Sinclair, happened to go to the hospital that day to see his 2-day-old son, Nikko, who was being kept in the NICU for observation as doctors administered antibiotics.
Through the nursery window, prosecutors say he watched Burke, who had been charged with Nikko's care, approach the child, lift him up, flip him over -- and slam him face down on the bassinet. Sinclair also recorded the incident on his phone -- and showed it to the baby's mother, Consuelo Saravia."I don’t know, it just broke me," Sinclair said at the time."I didn’t know what to do.
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