STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A New York City Parks Department employee who was arrested Tuesday after a gruesome fireworks incident in Dongan Hills was arraigned Wednesday in Criminal Court, St. George, on charges of reckless endangerment and endangering the welfare of a child.
The defendant, Joshua Moe, 24, of Rosebank, was placed on supervised release after prosecutors laid out some of the alleged details surrounding the incident Tuesday at General Douglas MacArthur Park in Dongan Hills.
The defendant is accused of giving a lighter to a 10-year-old girl who then lit a firework — reportedly was an M-80— that exploded in her hand. Responding officers said the girl was missing parts of her fingers on her left hand and had a laceration on her right hand, according to a criminal complaint.
Defendant spoke to police after, prosecutors say
The defendant allegedly told police afterward that he did not mean the girl any harm, the complaint continued…