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A child services worker has been charged with assaulting a 6-year-old boy in Manhattan.
Jacques Edwards, 55, was taken into custody on charges of assault and endangering the welfare of a child after he allegedly picked up the boy and slammed him into a doorframe and filing cabinet while caring for him at the Nicholas Scoppetta Children’s Center in Kips Bay.
