A 4-year-old boy covered in bruises was found unconscious

Cops quiz dad in slay of 4-yr.-old who
had bruises all over his body as
mystery deepens in Brooklyn

BY Kerry Burke, Rocco Parascandola and Joe Kemp
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Saturday, October 24th 2009, 4:00 AM

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A 4-year-old boy covered in bruises was found unconscious in his Brooklyn home on Friday and died at the hospital, sources said.

Jayden Lenescar's mother, Myrna Chen Phang, summoned authorities to their Crown Heights apartment with a 2:30 p.m. call to 911, police said.

"They took the boy out on a stretcher," said a neighbor, Anna Gilliam, 49.

"His mother was hollering, 'Lord, no, don't let my baby die! Don't let nothing happen to him!'"

Emergency workers put an oxygen mask on Jayden and were performing CPR as they rushed him to the ambulance, Gilliam said.

Jayden was taken to Kings County Hospital and was pronounced dead, police said.

Police said Friday night they were investigating Jayden's death as a homicide because of the bruising on his body. The medical examiner will determine the cause of death.

The boy's father, Mackenzy Lenescar, was being questioned about the death, a source said.


Lenescar, a factory worker, had an order of protection put on him by Phang, sources said.

"They were having problems in their relationship, but nothing to do with the baby," said the boy's aunt, Marie Helesca.

"He was a good boy," the aunt said. "I'll miss him. My son will miss him."

Jayden's grandmother, Yolette Charles, 52, was inconsolable at the scene and had to be carried away by relatives after she collapsed.

"No, why?" Charles wailed. "I love my baby. He was my baby."
Phang lives with her mother in the Eastern Parkway apartment and has custody of Jayden, family said.

Lenescar lives nearby at Charles' home and gets Jayden on the weekends, family said.

Relatives said there were no signs the child had been abused.


"We're not a family that abuses children," said uncle Karl Henry, 25. "I don't think this is possible."

Henry, who has a daughter, said he was just with Jayden a week ago.

"He was the sweetest child," he said. "I loved him as I love my own."



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