New York Desk
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POLICE BLOTTER
Dead Newborn’s Mother Charged With Murder
The 14-year-old mother of an infant thrown from a building in the Bronx was charged with second degree murder and manslaughter yesterday, police officials said. Police said Letteschia Binns threw her newborn daughter out the fifth-floor window sometime early Tuesday morning at the Eastchester Gardens apartment complex in the Williamsbridge section of the Bronx. The medical examiner yesterday ruled the infant’s death a homicide by blunt impact to the head.
– Staff Reporter of the Sun
CITYWIDE
NYCLU: Security Cams Multiply Fivefold
The number of surveillance cameras in downtown Manhattan has more than quintupled in the past seven years, according to a report by a civil liberties group. Surveyors found 4,176 of the electronic eyes on blocks south of 14th Street during a canvass last year, up from 769 in the same area in 1998, the New York Civil Liberties Union said.
– Associated Press
IN THE COURTS
Man Found Guilty In Sword Killing
A young man who nearly beheaded his stepfather with a samurai sword last year was convicted yesterday of second-degree murder after jurors rejected his claim that his mother committed the brutal slaying. The verdict capped a trial that included testimony from Zachary Gibian alleging that his stepfather, Scott Nager, had sexually abused him since age 15 and that his mother flew into a murderous rage after finding out.
– Associated Press
