A Brooklyn man has been arraigned on an indictment in which he is charged with manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, and other charges after he allegedly hit his 23-month-old daughter in the head, causing her death. The child died from a traumatic brain injury one day before her second birthday.
Robert Wright, 38, took his 23-month-old daughter Aniyah Wyatt-Wright to Brookdale Hospital at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday after the baby went into seizures and was bleeding from her mouth, according to sources.
Sources said that the baby went into cardiac arrest but was revived and transported to Cohen Children’s Medical Center in Queens, where she died from blunt force trauma.
Wright and the baby’s mother originally told the police that the baby had been put down to sleep before Aniyah’s brother and sister rushed to the adults to tell them that the baby was shaking, sources said.
But under questioning, Wright allegedly admitted to punching the girl in the back of the head while she slept, sources said.
Wright has been charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.
