Alysson Pinto-Chaumana was just 5 years old when a stone wall collapsed on her in Brooklyn in 2019, killing her right in front of her mother.
Alysson Pinto-Chaumana was just 5 years old when a stone wall collapsed on her in Brooklyn in 2019, killing her right in front of her motherA 48-year-old Nassau County man and his construction company have been convicted at a bench trial on criminally negligent homicide and other charges in the 2019 death of aThe child, Alysson Pinto-Chaumana, and her mom, along with a few friends, were visiting another friend on Harman Street, a three-story building in Bushwick , around 8:30 p.m. on Aug.
The contractor also neglected to have a licensed engineer or architect conduct a post-construction analysis of the wall's stability as required by city ordinance, officials said. An NYC buildings engineer who responded to the collapse site saw no steel reinforcing bars in any of the pillars as required, according to the indictment, and also determined it was held together mainly by its own weight and gravity.
That made it"highly unstable" and marked an"egregious violation of multiple provisions of building code," according to prosecutors. The engineer described the conditions as"imminently perilous" to the little girl's life, they said. "This is a heartbreaking instance where a young child was needlessly and senselessly taken from her family because this defendant chose to ignore safety protocols by violating numerous provisions of New York City’s building code, building a heavy stone fence and failing to secure it," Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said in a statement."Hopefully, today’s verdict will send a message that dangerous and sloppy work by contractors will have serious consequences.
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