Police say they've arrested a man in the death of a 3-year-old boy in the Bronx last week.
Fernando Yensi, 33, was charged with manslaughter of a person less than 11 years old Thursday, police said.
The medical examiner Wednesday ruled Poseidon Quinones' death a homicide.
Yensi's relationship with the boy was not immediately clear, but the home address listed by police matched Poseidon's residence. The boy's father, Benjamin Quinones, said Wednesday that his son had been living with Benjamin's mother, her husband and their two children.
"The ACS took him from me because they told me my son was going to be safer there than with me," Benjamin Quinones told NBC 4 sister station Telemundo.
"I think everyone in the house should be under investigation. Somebody in the house beat my son, that's all we know," he said. "We're just trying to get to the bottom of this, now I just want justice for him."
Yensi told reporters as he was led from a police station Thursday, "I never touched him," and that he had "no idea" how the boy got bruises on his body.
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Officers responded to a 911 call at 1:42 a.m. Saturday and found little Poseidon Quinones unconscious inside his South Bronx apartment. Police say the child had suffered apparent trauma to his body.
The boy was taken to Lincoln Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The boy had been in the custody of his paternal grandmother, by order of the city Administration for Children's Services, according to the boy's father.
It's not clear why ACS had removed the boy from his parents' custody.
