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Video shows Long Island nurse Amanda Burke violently slamming newborn baby

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Emily Cortez

Published Dec 29, 2025

A Long Island nurture named Amanda Burke was captured on Wednesday, April 13, 2023, for pummeling a two-day-old baby, Nikko, face down into his bassinet. The episode occurred on February 6, 2023, in the neonatal emergency unit the Great Samaritan Clinic, New York.

Burke was reserved by the Suffolk Province Lead prosecutor’s Office after film of the episode moved into the open. Nikko’s dad, Fidel Sinclair, purportedly got the entire episode on his cellphone through the nursery window. The video showed 29-year-old Amanda Burke approach the child, lift him from the bassinet, and hammer him back into the bunk.

In a proclamation, Suffolk Head prosecutor Raymond Tierney said that the charges against Burke, who was endowed with the consideration of the kids” were upsetting.

A public statement with regards to this issue read that after Amanda lifted the newborn from his bassinet, she flipped him over and fiercely pummeled him face down. Subsequent to watching the video recorded on the child’s dad’s telephone, the child’s mom faced Amanda.

In February, News12 revealed the occurrence subsequent to acquiring the recording. Addressing News12, Consuelo Saravia, the mother of the child, said she was incensed on the grounds that her child “in a real sense just appeared on the scene.”

She told News12: “That is so screwed up to simply deal with a child like that. A newborn. It’s insane.” Be that as it may, the child experienced no significant wounds and was doing great after the assault, Saravia told the station.

The DA’s office professed to have educated the state’s Specialization regarding Training’s Office of Expert Discipline of the examination’s discoveries. In any case, at this point, Amanda Burke actually has the permit to rehearse as an enlisted nurture.

Burke’s lawyer irritated about criminal allegations slapped on her Amanda Burke’s attorney, Robert C. Gottlieb, is allegedly frustrated over the charges against Burke. Gottlieb expressed that his client ought to never have had to deal with criminal penalties

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Gottlieb kept up with that his client, has really focused on the baby with “affection and empathy,” a report by The Post expressed.

He said: “The Suffolk DA has terribly misshaped current realities and ought to never have gotten this case criminal court. The newborn child for this situation is solid and was rarely harmed. Amanda is an outstanding medical attendant who has consistently focused on newborn children under her consideration with adoration and empathy and the proof will demonstrate that undoubtedly.”