A judge dismissed a misdemeanor criminal charge against a New York nurse whose trial was set to begin this week after she was accused of manhandling a newborn baby in an incident that was caught on video last year by an alert parent at Good Samaritan Hospital.
During a preliminary hearing, the defense asked for a dismissal, and prosecutors with the Suffolk County district attorney’s office admitted they could not prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt, allowing Amanda Burke to walk free on March 25, the day her trial was to begin and more than a year after she was charged with endangering the welfare of a child.
Burke was fired the same day of the February 2023 incident, which shocked the Long Island community when video emerged of the nurse roughing up a newborn baby.
A father recorded her through a window of Good Samaritan’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, where he witnessed the nurse slamming his 2-day-old son face down into his bassinet, according to the Suffolk County district attorney.
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