A Bronx mom was charged with murder in the brutal beating death of her 6-year-old daughter – who neighbors say had begged for her life before her shocking end, cops said.
Lynija Eason-Kumar , 23, was arrested Thursday in connection to the early-morning May 26, 2023 slaying of little Jalayah Eason inside the family’s squalid apartment at NYCHA’s Forest Houses, according to authorities.
The mother had initially told cops she found the girl cold and not breathing inside a closet in their 12th-floor unit on East 165th Street, sources said at the time.
Eason-Kumar claimed she tried to administer CPR, but Jalayah would not wake up, cops said.
EMS arrived 15 minutes later and rushed the girl — who had obvious bruising and trauma on her wrists and torso — to Lincoln Medical Center, but she couldn’t be saved .