By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Sunday, September 29, 1991
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A 24-year-old Cliffside Park man has been charged with beating his 11-month-old son to death, Bergen County Prosecutor John J. Fahy said Saturday.
Paul Yarwood Jr. was arrested at 11:59 p.m. Friday after autopsy results showed that his son, Paul Courtney Yarwood, died from a subdural hematoma bleeding in the head that Fahy said was caused by repeated blows.
“The baby had bruises in the forehead, near the eyebrow, buttocks, and thighs, and on the left and right arms,” Fahy said. “We believe the assault happened on a number of occasions between Tuesday night and Thursday afternoon, when he [Yarwood] called 911. ”
Yarwood took the infant from his mother, 20-year-old Allandra McCray of the Bronx, about 9 p.m. Tuesday.
“The baby was going to stay with him for a few days,” Fahy said. At 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Yarwood called 911 for an ambulance to take the infant to a hospital, Fahy said.
The boy died two hours and 15 minutes later in the emergency room of Palisades General Hospital in North Bergen, he said.
Yarwood, who could face up to 30 years in prison if convicted on the murder count, was being held on $500,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail on Saturday. Fahy said McCray, a clerk at a New York law firm, was not implicated in her son’s death.
Yarwood moved to his Cliffside Park apartment about a week ago, Fahy said. Before then, he had lived for four years in the Bronx, then for four months in Manhattan.
Yarwood did odd jobs at Funky Base Productions, a recording company at 12 Mevan Drive, Englewood, including serving as a backup singer on recordings, a disc jockey, and, sometimes, a bouncer, Fahy said.
Rob Base, owner of the company, said Yarwood also performs with a rap band that Base formed four years ago. The group performs worldwide, he said.
“I know he didn’t do it not him, man,” Base said. “That’s why I’m still in shock now. I just can’t believe it.”
Base said the group was working to raise bail and hire a lawyer for Yarwood.
Keywords: ASSAULT; CLIFFSIDE PARK; CHILD; BABY
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