BAYSIDE — The death of a 4-month-old boy on Christmas Eve days after he was beaten by his father has been ruled a homicide, according to the medical examiner.
Nevin Janduher's father, Jagsheer Singh, 28, was re-arrested Tuesday and charged with murder in the second degree, an upgrade from his original charge of assault and endangering the welfare of a child, according to the Queens District Attorney's Office.
Nevin was brought to Flushing Hospital on Dec. 20 at 8 a.m., unconscious and struggling to breathe, police said.
Doctors found that his skull had been fractured in several places, and the medical examiner later ruled he suffered "abusive head trauma including skull fractures and subdural hemorrhage," according to a spokeswoman.
Singh was with his son at their Brian Crescent home in Bayside on Dec. 19 while the boy's mother, Reena Malhotra, went to work, according to the criminal complaint.
Malhotra said the child was doing well before she left for work around 8:30 p.m., and she did not check on him when she returned home at 6:15 a.m.
She fell asleep and stayed in her room until Singh woke her up around 8 a.m. and said that Nevin fell off a 4-foot-high changing table half an hour earlier, according to a criminal complaint from the Queens DA.
But Dr. Jamie Hoffman-Rosenfeld, who examined Nevin at Cohen Children's Medical Center, found that the "nature and severity" of his injuries were "inconsistent with the defendant's account of a short fall from the changing table."
The injuries were found to be "non-accidental inflicted trauma of abusive head trauma," Hoffman-Rosenfeld said, according to the criminal complaint.
Singh's attorney could not immediately be reached for comment.
He is due back in court on Jan. 5, 2015.
