Godmother and beau nabbed on charges in Brooklyn toddler's death:
Reason to Blow Up the World...
The godmother of the 3-year-old boy whose lifeless body was discovered in her Brooklyn apartment was arrested along with her boyfriend Saturday for allegedly torturing the child she was supposed to protect.
Nymeen Cheatham, 30, and Lemar Martin, 25, were charged with assault and endangering the welfare of a child Saturday and could face more serious charges - including murder, police said.
The medical examiner completed the autopsy on Kyle Smith's 28-pound body and determined he died of "multiple blunt impact injuries with soft tissue hemorrhages all over the body," a spokeswoman said.
She said she could not be more specific because it might interfere with the investigation.
The suspects were surrounded by two dozen neighbors screaming obscenities at them Saturday afternoon as they were led out of the 81st Precinct stationhouse to be taken to Central Booking.
Cops said three domestic incident reports had been filed at Cheatham's home from Dec. 11 to Jan. 2 - but none of them led to an arrest. The NYPD did not release details of those reports Saturday.
Cheatham apparently took custody of Kyle 18 months ago after a judge ordered the child be taken from his crack addict mother.
Neighbors said Cheatham and Martin frequently screamed at the boy, whose body was covered with bruises, rope burns and cigarette burns when paramedics found him in a Patchen Ave. apartment in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Friday afternoon.
Investigators said that doctors at Interfaith Medical Center - where Kyle was pronounced dead on arrival - said the child had a broken leg and had been sodomized with a stick before he died.
This is one of those stories where enough words don't exist to properly express my feelings of disgust.
One point for the physical abuse, another for his death, one more for the sexual abuse, one point for two people being involved (you'd think that one of them would have put a stop to it), and one last point to the crackhead mother. If she didn't do crack her son would still be alive. That's five.
I do like the fact that the New York crowd gave them verbal abuse while they did the perp walk. I didn't like it enough to take any points away.
Nod of Doom to X-Files.












