The horror was unimaginable as EMS technicians responded to a 911 call no one ever wants to receive — a report of an unconscious child.
When they arrived at the squalid Harlem apartment, they found an emaciated 4-year-old boy who weighed barely 19 pounds unresponsive and barely breathing. Nearby were his three older siblings, also reduced to nothing more than skin and bones .
And in the kitchen, another heartbreaking sight: Cabinets filled with food, but secured with child-proof locks — and a stocked refrigerator turned toward the wall so the children couldn’t open it.
This was the horrific homestead where the short and tragic life of Jahmeik Modlin played out and ended in tears. The malnourished child died abused and neglected in a local hospital hours after falling unconscious last Sunday night.
Prosecutors said his parents failed to feed their family, and let their youngest boy waste away and die even though there was plenty of food on hand — a sadistic scenario that left neighbors, and the Harlem community at large, reeling.