NYC baby clinging to life after being repeatedly punched in the head: cops

A baby girl was clinging to life Saturday after allegedly being punched in the head by a Bronx man, police said.

Jerome Thomas, 19, was hit with first-degree assault and child endangerment charges for allegedly slamming his closed fist into the one-year-old’s head inside a Woodstock apartment around 2:30 a.m. Thursday, cops said.

When police responded to a call about someone needing help, they allegedly found Thomas, a 25-year-old woman and the battered baby, who was semi-conscious, inside the Union Avenue apartment, authorities said Saturday.

The infant was taken to Harlem Hospital in critical but stable condition, police said…

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