An ex-junkie beat her newborn son without mercy until he ended up gravely injured in the emergency room with a fractured skull, bleeding on the brain and broken bones, police said Friday.
The tragic case is certain to raise new questions about the city's embattled Administration for Children's Services, which visited the Queens home only two days before the final beating, sources said.
"The ACS workers were shocked when they found out what happened. They were crying," a law enforcement source said.
"But good Lord, how do you miss a baby with a broken leg and broken ribs? It's mind-blowing."
Pablo Paez's brief life of pain was exposed after he was taken to Elmhurst Hospital Center, where doctors declared him brain-dead Friday.
His mother, Kiana Paez, 23, was in custody, facing attempted murder and assault charges after she matter-of-factly told cops she had been abusing her son almost since birth.
She confessed that on Thursday night she hit the crying baby so hard she knocked over the car seat that served as his crib - and then dropped him on his head, sources said.
Just six months ago, ACS removed a toddler from Paez's Corona, Queens, home because her drug use rendered her unable to care for the child.
The mom told authorities Pablo was just 2 weeks old when she grabbed him with such force she broke eight of his ribs, sources said. A month later, he still had fingernail imprints on his chest.
Paez didn't take Pablo to the hospital, so he had to endure the pain while the ribs healed.
But his mom didn't want to hear him cry, and one day as he wailed, she angrily hurled him across the room onto a bed, breaking his leg, she told cops.
Again, Paez sought no help for the child, sources said. And as he cried on Thursday night, she allegedly walloped him one last time, toppling the car seat.
When she went to pick up the seat, she dropped it and Pablo landed head first, suffering his final injuries - the skull fracture and brain bleed, sources said.
This time, Paez took the boy to the hospital, giving doctors the cover story that he had simply stopped breathing.
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How do you NOT notice broken bones in a newborn? Since when did they start sending out legally blind ACS workers? I have heard of problems in that particular department but come the fuck on!!! They should arrest the fucktard that made the home visit.
And her...any sentence that she receives will not EVEN come close to what she truly deserves. She is a waste of oxygen.