A Bronx mom was arrested for murder Thursday for the 2023 beating death of her 6-year-old daughter, police said.
Lynija Eason Kumar is accused of assaulting her daughter Jalayah Eason, who was found bruised and unconscious inside the family’s E. 165th St. apartment in the Forest Houses last May 26.
Little Jalayah was rushed by medics to Lincoln Hospital but could not be saved.
Neighbors said they heard anguished howls coming from the apartment.
Eason Kumar, 27 at the time, was charged with endangering the welfare of her two other children — a boy, then 8, and a girl, then 3. Both children were taken into custody by the Administration for Children’s Services in the wake of their sister’s death. Eason Kumar was granted supervised release without bail on those charges.
The surviving girl had “a long discolored scar to the right side of her waist” and a “widespread discolored rash to her inner thighs and buttocks,” a 2023 criminal complaint said.
The young boy had “countless small lacerations in various stages of healing on his back, scalp, arms and legs,” the complaint said. Cops also said he had a cut to his forehead and a deep healing cut on his scalp.
Eason Kumar was due back in Bronx Criminal Court on the 2023 charges the day of her arrest Thursday.
She said nothing as she was led out of the 42nd Precinct stationhouse in handcuffs to appear in Bronx Criminal Court on the new charges Thursday. Her arraignment was pending on charges of murder and manslaughter.
ACS had responded to the home for allegations involving the oldest child at least twice, according to a police source.
“I take care of my kids by myself,” Eason Kumar told cops, according to the complaint. “No other adults live in my apartment with me and my kids.”
