Woman Dropped Off 'Lifeless' 3-Year-Old Boy at N.Y. Hospital Before She 'Took Off': Report

Mar. 15, 2025

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At approximately 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, March 9, an unidentified woman brought the unresponsive toddler to SUNY Downstate Medical Center,Pix 11reported Monday, March 10.

The child had bruises covering his face and body, according to the news station, citing police.

While arriving at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Foster briefly spoke toCBS News New York, delivering a stern message for whoever was involved in Kyng’s death.

“I’m the grandmother. It’s hurting me, y’all. I don’t know what to do right now,” she said. “Whoever did this to my grandson, the grandmother is coming for y’all.”

Foster arrived with Kyng’s godmother, Sabrina Johnson. “When I see his face, the cutest little dude you ever wanted to see,” Johnson told CBS News New York. “And it’s just so sad that he’s no longer here.”

Johnson added, “You are no longer in pain. God gained an angel, and I’m so sad that it took only three years of him being on the world, because he could’ve had so much more. He could have been so much more.”

A cause of death has not yet been determined, pending an autopsy. However, Kyng appeared to have signs of rigor mortis, suggesting that he was already dead when he was brought to the hospital, the CBS news station added, citing the medical examiner’s preliminary examination.

Rigor mortis is the “post mortem stiffening/ rigidity of the body,” per theNational Institutes of Health.

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The New York Police Department and the SUNY Downstate Medical Center did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.

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source: people.com