BROOKLYN — A 30-year-old Sunset Park woman was sentenced to 20 years in prison Tuesday for beating her 2-year-old son so strenuously he suffered brain damage and is paralyzed from the neck down, the Brooklyn District Attorney said.
Yayun Weng, 30, violently shook her son in a whiplash manner, hit him with a bamboo rod and bit his leg just two weeks after his second birthday in 2014.
He became unresponsive two days after the beating and Weng took him to Maimonides Medical Center where he was listed in critical condition with head injuries and bruising all over his body.
“This horrific violence against a helpless baby at the hands of his mother is disturbing and completely unacceptable,” Acting District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said in a statement. “Instead of protecting her child, this defendant nearly killed him and left him paralyzed. She deserves to be in prison for what she did.”
Weng was found guilty of assaulting a child, criminal possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment, according to court records.
She was convicted Oct. 11 by Justice Dineen Riviezzo in Brooklyn Supreme Court.
