BRONX — A mother said a mysterious group of men on the street beat her two-month-old son with bats only to go back on her claim, admitting she had dropped her son at home, police said Tuesday.
The mother, who's name was not released, said she was afraid of having trouble with the Administration for Children's Services and concocted the tall tale, police said.
Emergency workers responded to a call for help at 12:23 a.m. on Tuesday morning on the corner of Noble and Story avenues, finding the infant boy with blunt force trauma to the head, police said.
EMS transported the injured boy to Jacobi Medical Center, police said.
At first the boy's mother told police that an unidentified group of men had jumped out of a vehicle and attacked her and her little boy. But she later recanted her story, admitting that the child had fallen out of her grasp at home.
Later at the hospital, the child was deemed "alert and stable" and "in no grave danger," police said.
The incident is still under investigation, and no further details were immediately available.
