Brooklyn Man Killed 4-Year-Old Child, Gets Sentenced To Prison: DA

BROOKLYN, NY —A 30-year-old Brooklyn man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for fatally striking his girlfriend’s four-year-old son back in 2021, prosecutors announced Wednesday.

Jerimiah Johnson, of East New York, was sentenced earlier today in Brooklyn Supreme Court after he pled guilty to first-degree manslaughter in April, prosecutors said.

An autopsy by the city's medical examiner determined that the victim —Jayce Eubanks — had numerous old and new injuries throughout his body and suffered from battered child syndrome, prosecutors said.

On September 12, 2021, at the child’s home in the Gowanus Houses, his mother was awakened by Johnson who had the 4-year-old child in his arm and said he could not breathe and had collapsed to the floor, prosecutors said.

Jayce was taken to Brooklyn Hospital Center, where he was pronounced dead.

“The autopsy of this innocent child revealed that he suffered unthinkable and repeated abuse in his short life and ultimately died at the hands of this defendant," District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said. "I am committed to protecting children in our communities from child abusers, and today’s sentence holds this defendant accountable.”