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PATERSON A man accused of punching a one-year-old boy in the stomach a blow that authorities say caused the child to undergo emergency surgery last Christmas Day gave his five-year-old daughter a Barbie doll to get the girl to lie to detectives, according to criminal complaints against the suspect.
In exchange for the toy, the little girl told investigators that she not her father hit the toddler in the stomach with a hammer after the boy bit her finger, according to police records.
The man, 37-year-old Jeanandre Desir, allegedly also gave his eight-year-old son $1 to go along with the story that his little sister inflicted the toddler’s injury with a hammer, said an affidavit of probable cause filed in Superior Court in Paterson.