A
babysitter charged with murdering a 16-month-old boy whose family lived
in the same Staten Island building subjected him to hours of physical
and sexual abuse while he was left in her care over the weekend,
prosecutors said on Wednesday.
The
babysitter, Gloria Fields, made her first appearance in Criminal Court
on Wednesday, where a prosecutor outlined accusations of torture that
led to outbursts of sobbing and screaming from the child’s relatives and
others packed into the courtroom.