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Child Abuse: Paterson Couple Charged With Beating Boy, 7
A Paterson couple was jailed for repeatedly beating a 7-year-boy, authorities said.
Davon Burton, 26, and Demetries Page, 24, became the focus of an investigation after a worker with the state Division of Child Protection and Permanency contacted detectives with the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit, authorities said Thursday.
The investigators interviewed multiple witnesses, including the boy, they said.
The child told them Burton and Page “physically assaulted him on several occasions between September 2020 and September 2021 at their residence,” Passaic…
Indictment: Paterson Baby Died From Sex Assault
A 17-month-old infant died after being sexually assaulted by a Paterson man, an indictment alleges.
James Davis, 46, and the baby’s mother, Qunasia Coleman, 30, were both indicted by a grand jury in Paterson in connection with the November 2020 incident, authorities said Wednesday.
An ambulance rushed the infant to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center following a call for an unresponsive child at Coleman’s Carroll Street apartment, authorities said at the time.
Coleman had gone out, leaving Davis to care for the child, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief I…