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Imagine for a moment that you were the neighbor of 10-year-old Ayden Wolfe, the Harlem boy who was beaten to death by his mother’s boyfriend in early March. You call the police when you hear screams from the family’s apartment a woman yelling “Stop,” and a man demanding whether she wanted to be next.
Now, here’s the question: Would you give your name to the police? Consider that there are only eight apartments on the floor, and you are dealing with a man who has already had run-ins with the law because of domestic abuse. Wouldn’t you worry he would figure out who reported him or that some CPS investigator might let it slip? In fact, you might not call at all.
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Police say Wolfe had been tortured and beaten to death.
His stepfather, 34-year-old Ryan Cato, is now charged with murder.
However, officials say the NYPD is also investigating if proper procedures were followed when officers were called to the complex for a domestic dispute the day before Wolfe was found dead.
Josh Einiger reports the NYPD is investigating the police response to a domestic dispute call the day before a 10-year-old boy was found dead in his Harlem apartment. Although much wasn t revealed about this situation, we will continue to ask questions and find out more so we can bring whoever done this to justice, Wolfe s father Darnell said. I m torn up over this. I m trying to keep it together because this is going to be a long process and I have to bury my child, which no one should have to do.