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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…