A Long Island City homeless shelter resident beat his 2-year-old son to death in a drunken blackout after the boy’s mother repeatedly warned city government officials that he should never be left in the man’s care, according to a combination of court documents and media reports.
The alleged killer did not even seek care for the mortally injured child, according to the criminal complaint filed against him. Two days later, when he was dropping off his other child at a location in Manhattan, unnamed witnesses saw the toddler’s condition and called police, the document says.
The boy, Maliek Williams, was brought to New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan, where he clung to life for a couple days but then died. The father, Dayvon Morrison, is in custody and has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric exam, according to the Queens District Attorney’s Office. The distraught mother, Cyndy Williams, has lashed out at the system for, she said, not acting on her pleas to keep Maliek away from Morrison…