A Brooklyn lady who faces felony prices for allegedly whipping her 9-year-old son with an extension twine confronted the boy after studying he was planning to rob an area retailer, her protection lawyer mentioned in courtroom.
Tsahay Nurse, 37, was charged with felony assault, among different prices, in reference to the alleged beating, the New York Day by day Information reported.
In keeping with a felony criticism, Nurse was arrested after her son ran away from house and a stranger discovered him at a McDonald’s in Flatbush early Tuesday morning.
Nurse’s lawyer, Samuel Getz, denied the violent acts Nurse is accused of however advised a decide that his shopper confronted the boy after some mother and father advised her he had mugged one other boy.
Across the identical time, Nurse found a gaggle chat her son was a part of the place the chat’s members have been planning a theft.
“They have been conspiring to rob an area retailer by sporting a ski masks,” Getz mentioned. “If he have been to go and rob a nook retailer, he may very well be killed by police. … She was only a involved, accountable mom.”
The boy advised authorities that his mom hit his arms with an extension twine, punched him within the chest, then yelled at him, grabbed him by the neck, and pinned him to the bottom. A police supply said that Nurse reportedly turned upset after discovering a ski masks amongst the boy’s belongings.
Police famous they noticed lacerations and redness on one of many boy’s arms. He additionally reported neck ache. He was taken to an area hospital for commentary.
“She’s a single mom who’s disciplining her children as a result of he did one thing that he wasn’t presupposed to do,” the kid’s great-aunt, Jennifer Braithwaite, mentioned.
A decide ordered Nurse’s launch from jail with none bail circumstances, however she was issued a safety order that forestalls her from contacting her son.
In keeping with Getz, the boy will dwell with different family members in the meanwhile.
“She didn’t commit any crime. She was simply being a superb mum or dad,” Getz mentioned, including that police most likely arrested her as a result of “they have been erring on the facet of warning.”
“I’m unsure they utterly evaluated all of the details and circumstances,” Getz said.
In keeping with Nurse’s LinkedIn profile, she’s served as a registered pediatric nurse for practically 10 years.
