Jamaica Mother Arrested in 2017 Death Of 5-Year Old Son: NYPD

JAMAICA, QUEENS -- A mother was arrested for the death of her 5-year-old son in Jamaica on Thursday, more than a year after the boy was killed inside the home with a history of abuse complaints , police said.

Phyllis Reinoso, 31, found her son Michael Guzman, who was known to have chronic seizures, unconscious and unresponsive in his bed at their house on 109th Avenue near Inwood Street on Jan. 22, 2017, cops said. Medics rushed the boy to Jamaica Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

That July, a medical examiner determined the boy's cause of death was an overdose of seizure medications, NBC New York reported. Cops questioned Reinoso and the boy's father, but neither was ever arrested.

Nearly a year after Guzman's death, the case was ruled a homicide on Dec. 14, 2017, police said. Cops tried to track Reinoso down for questioning but had trouble finding her.

Police tracked down Reinoso just after 12:25 a.m. on Thursday in Staten Island. She was arrested on charges of manslaughter, assault, reckless endangerment, acting in a manner injurous to a child less than 17 and failure to exercise control of a minor.

The Jamaica home Reinoso and his five siblings lived in had a history of several child abuse complaints, authorities said.

Administration for Children's Services investigators made 13 visits to the house on 109 Ave - and found evidence of abuse on eight of them - before he was found dead, the New York Daily News reported.

The ACS found children with visible signs of physical abuse and evidence that one of the daughters was sexually abused by a relative, according to reports.

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