An “autistic” Staten Island man who allegedly hurled his 1-year-old niece three flooring down a trash chute has been slapped with fees for the deranged stunt, cops and sources stated Wednesday.
Aaron Henderson, 39, was charged with assault, illegal imprisonment and endangering the welfare of a kid for allegedly dropping the tot down the chute contained in the household’s constructing on Steuben Road close to Weser Avenue in Park Hill round 3:15 p.m. Monday, authorities stated.
The woman’s dad was within the rest room when the alarming incident unfolded, regulation enforcement sources stated.
When he stepped out of the restroom, he requested the place his daughter was – and his brother replied that he’d dropped her down the chute, the sources stated.
Each of the woman’s dad and mom rushed all the way down to the primary flooring, the place they heard their child daughter crying within the chute, in accordance with the sources.
The panicked mother and pa broke the door open and pulled their daughter from the chute almost unscathed, the sources stated.
She was taken to Richmond College Medical Heart with scratches on her head, face and physique, cops and sources stated.
In the meantime, the uncle – who the household described as autistic – was hospitalized for a psychological analysis, the sources stated.
The kid’s father stated he’d by no means seen his brother act that method earlier than, in accordance with the sources.
The NYPD had no prior encounters with Henderson, both via arrests or “emotionally disturbed individual incidents,” authorities stated.
He was anticipated to be arraigned in Richmond County Prison Court docket Wednesday.
