Plea Deal For Westchester Man Who Killed Toddler Son

MOUNT VERNON, NY — Lloyd Scott, who beat his 2-year-old son and then put him to bed, pleaded guilty to manslaughter Sept. 5.

During Thursday's court appearance, the 35-year-old pleaded guilty to Manslaughter in the First Degree, a class B felony, for which he has been promised a sentence of 21 years in state prison with five years’ post-release supervision, Westchester County District Attorney Anthony A. Scarpino, Jr. announced.

State Supreme Court Justice Barry Warhit accepted the plea. Sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 6, 2019.

On April 16, 2018, Scott was alone with his 2-year-old son while the boy’s mother was at work. During that time, he beat the child, put him in bed, and when the mother returned home from work told her the boy was sleeping. When she checked on her son, he was not breathing and was covered in bruises all over his face and torso. Scott drove the mother and child to the area near Montefiore Mount Vernon Hospital, but when the mother ran into the emergency room with the child in her arms, Scott fled in her car. The child was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at the hospital and Scott was apprehended later that night.

Following an autopsy performed at the Westchester Medical Examiner's Office, the child was determined to have suffered blunt force trauma to his body including lacerations to his liver, his pancreas and his intestines.

Scott was indicted by a Grand Jury on charges of Murder in the Second Degree, a class A felony, and two counts of Manslaughter in the First Degree, class B felonies.

Second Deputy District Attorney Fredric I. Green, Chief of the Special Prosecutions Division, and Assistant District Attorney Wendy Parra, Chief of the Domestic Violence Bureau, are prosecuting the case.

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