LI Cardiologist Gets 3 Years In Prison For Shaking Infant Son: DA

BELLPORT, NY — A Bellport cardiologist was sentenced on Thursday to three years in prison for shaking his infant son so hard he gave him a brain bleed and fractured both of his legs, Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said.

Neiman Ramjattan, 35, "recklessly shook" his four week-old son at his Bellport home in early August 2020, causing the child's brain to bleed, as well as retinal hemorrhaging, and fractures to both of his left and right legs that required the him to be hospitalized at Stony Brook University Hospital, said Tierney, citing evidence produced at trial.

Ramjattan admitted, “I’m the jerk that did this to my baby. He was fussy so I picked him up from the crib. I picked him up forcefully and shook him, I wasn’t looking at his legs that must have been when they broke. I’m a monster. I hurt my child,” according to Tierney's office.

Ramjattan, a Cardiologist at Northwell Health in Bay Shore at the time, was arrested on Aug.
24, 2020, after Suffolk County Child Protective Services was contacted, Tierney's office said.

He was convicted of reckless assault of a child and endangering the welfare of a child back in October.

Tierney said Ramjattan "recklessly used brute force on a defenseless infant because he could not control himself."

“The child could not defend himself from his own father’s abuse but the
jury spoke for him and now justice is served," he added.

Ramjattan will also be subject to three years post release supervision as part of his sentence.

His attorney, Michael Shoshnick of Mineola, was not immediately available.