From NY Post: A Long Island nurse violently slapped his disabled 5-year-old patient multiple times in a vicious caught-on-camera attack — but the abusive caretaker wasn’t arrested until after a local news report aired.
Bruno Valenzuela, 31, was arrested at his home in Brentwood just after 9 p.m. on Thursday — only hours after News 12 Long Island broadcast the disturbing footage and questioned why an arrest hadn’t been made since Dec. 22, when the beating took place in the family’s Port Jefferson home.
The sick nurse can be first seen with his headphones on, ignoring the child’s cries before eventually checking on the kid — then getting visibly frustrated and unleashing a barrage of violent strikes onto the boy’s chest while yelling at him, according to the video obtained by The Post.
“It took news reports for the Suffolk police to go and make an arrest for my son,” said Christopher Brower, the boy’s father.
Brower went public after an arrest hadn’t been made. The NYPD detective knows the legal system, so when investigators told him they needed to find a doctor to sign a statement saying the hits were “not medically necessary,” he was skeptical.
“I’m a detective. I’ve made over 500 arrests in my lifetime — I’ve never heard that once in my life — you have the whole thing on tape and you’re telling me you need a doctor to tell you that beating and choking my son isn’t medically necessary?” Brower said.
The Special Victims Unit detective allegedly told Brower that the case may not move quickly because there were other cases to worry about and that he was going on vacation.
“It was like they couldn’t be bothered — I’m embarrassed to say we’re in the same line of work,” Brower said.
Valenzuela was fired from his position with Christian Nursing Registry and charged with endangering the welfare of an incompetent or physically disabled person and endangering the welfare of a child.
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HORRIFIC: Home health aid Bruno Valenzuela ARRESTED after video showed him beating and hitting a 5-year-old severely disabled boy who can be seen crying pic.twitter.com/s3xVlzgBom
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