Retired NYPD Det. Christine Casilla was one of the first to respond to a call of a baby at Presbyterian Hospital barely breathing.
There are some cases that stick with a detective long after they leave the job. 2014 murder of a 3-month-old newborn in the Bronx – by a caregiver who slammed the baby boy’s head against a bedpost twice – is the case that still haunts her. Casilla was one of the first to respond to a call of a baby at Presbyterian Hospital barely breathing.
When they met Oct. 27, on the ninth anniversary of Joemill’s tragic beating, at the cemetery where the boy is buried, Casilla gave her a replica of the blanket she had found on eBay. “I wasn’t expecting something like that,” Greer said. “I was just expecting to see her. I went all the way to the ground and she went with me.
“He said, ‘I was burping him and he hit the head on one of the bed posts,’” Greer tearfully recalled. “And then he said, ‘He also hit the other side of his head.’ My son was covered up, like he didn’t want us to see what was done.” The mom pulled the cover off and saw Joemill’s face and body had turned a shade of blue. She immediately jumped in her car and rushed the newborn to the hospital.
He eventually copped to the crime, pleading guilty to second-degree attempted murder. He was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
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