The mother of a 2-year-old Queens boy is hoping against hope he survives after his father’s arrest for beating the toddler’s head in.
“I’m calling out for help. Please pray for my baby,” Cyndy Williams wrote on Facebook about her son Maliek. “If my son not here I don’t wanna be here either … I can’t breathe I can’t talk and I WONT live without my baby boy.”
Dayvon Morrison was arrested Tuesday for beating his son inside the Manhattan View Hotel, which is being used as a homeless shelter, on 21st St. near 38th Ave. in Long Island City. He is charged with attempted murder.
He allegedly beat the child about 7 p.m. on Sunday but the child didn’t receive any medical care for more than 12 hours when Maliek was returned to his mother and only then rushed to the hospital, police said.
“My baby is fighting for his life in the ICU please, I can’t do anything but pray,” the heartbroken mom wrote. “I asked for prayer from everyone I can’t breathe, my baby boy is two years old and the sweetest baby boy I have been fighting so hard for my son.”
Little Maliek remains in critical condition at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell with multiple skull fractures and brain injuries.
Williams posted a heartbreaking photo of her son unconscious and intubated with a row of staples running from his right ear to the center of his shaved head.
On the right side of his head is a large white bandage with the words “no skull” on it.
“My baby has suffered from significant trauma to the brain that doctors don’t think he …. wll fully recover from,” Williams posted on Facebook. “They are trying to get the swelling down but the doctors don’t think he will be able to develop mentally.”
“My baby just started putting words together and calling me mama,” she added. “My baby was perfect so smart … How am I supposed to be strong I can’t accept any of this. I want my baby to wake up. Please I’m trying and I want help.”
Morrison’s arraignment in Queens Criminal Court was pending Wednesday.
In her Facebook post, Williams said that she had been in a custody battle with Morrison over their son.
“I tried to keep my son away from this man,” she wrote. “How could this happen to my baby (by) his own father?”
“(Maliek) cried every time he had to go with this man,” she said about Morrison. “Now my worse fear has become a reality.”
