Lynija Eason News Today

Jelayah Eason Branch was found with bruises, signs of malnutrition, and wrist marks from being restrained and hung in a closet.

Lynija Eason Kumar also faces manslaughter charges in the killing of Jalayah Eason, who was found bruised and unconscious in her family’s apartment last May.

A Bronx mom was arrested Thursday for the 2023 beating death of her 6-year-old daughter, police said. Lynija Eason 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. Charges against Eason were pending after she was taken into custody Thursday. Little Jalayah was rushed by medics ...

When a child is found dead with bruises on her wrists and torso, the first question is always: Were there warning signs?

Two Bronx tots ingested drugs and their parents were arrested in separate incidents this week, cops said. 

The baby, whom police identified as Genevieve Comager, was found Sunday night in the woods. Her parents were charged in connection with the death, according to police officials.

Lynija Eason has already been hit with child endangerment charges for allegedly neglecting and harming her other two children, an 8-year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl.

Jalayah Eason was found bruised and unconscious in the Bronx. Her mother has been charged with endangering the welfare of her surviving son and daughter.

It was not immediately clear if the baby was left in the woods to die or if she died at the shelter where her family was staying and her body was later discarded in the woods, a police source said.

The medical examiner has yet to determine 6-year-old Eason's cause of death, but her mother is facing child endangerment charges.