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A Long Island, New York, a nurse has been charged after she was caught on video picking up a 2-day-old baby and slamming him facedown into his bassinet.
Amanda Burke, 29, was arrested Wednesday morning and charged with endangering the welfare of a child, a Class A misdemeanor, in connection with the Feb. 6 incident, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office announced.
Burke was a registered nurse in the neonatal intensive care unit at Good Samaritan Hospital in West Islip on Long Island, and at the time of the incident, she was in charge of the newborn's care.