Sentence In Toddler's Fatal Christmas Eve Beating

YONKERS, NY — A young father will serve 20 years in state prison for the beating death of his two-year-old son Alex in their squalid apartment last year. The child was killed on Christmas Eve.

Blair Robinson, 26, was sentenced Wednesday by Judge Barry Warhit after pleading guilty in May to one count of Manslaughter in the First Degree, a class “B” Violent Felony, Westchester County District Attorney Anthony A. Scarpino, Jr. announced.

In the home of astonishing squalor in which they lived with two children, Robinson whipped, kicked and beat the 2-year-old to death while the child's mother, Kenya Reed, watched.

At 8:14 p.m. Dec. 24, 2016, Robinson walked into the emergency room at St. John's Riverside Hospital in Yonkers carrying his 2-year-old son and reported to the staff that the child was not breathing. Hospital personnel observed that the child was lifeless and had no pulse. They were never able to revive him and he was pronounced dead at 9:25 p.m.

Although it was not readily apparent what caused the child's death, hospital personnel saw bruises on his back and notified the Yonkers Police Department.

Police said when they went to the victim's home following the child's death, they located his mother and also discovered the boy's 10-month-old sister in a bedroom where she lay in a cold room on a mattress with no sheets, a bottle of curdled milk beside her. The child was dirty and suffering from a terrible diaper rash. The apartment was filthy and unsanitary and rodent droppings were all over kitchen surfaces. Bugs flew around inside the refrigerator.

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