Amar Corbin, of Mastic, convicted of strangling, injuring 8-month-old
A Mastic man has been convicted by a Suffolk jury on charges of strangling and injuring a baby last year. Credit: Paul Mazza
A Mastic man was convicted Monday of strangling and injuring an 8-month-old baby, prosecutors said.
Amar Corbin, 25, was found guilty by jurors of felony strangulation, assault and misdemeanor endangering the welfare of a child in the May 13, 2025, assault while he was watching the baby.
Authorities did not say whether the baby, who survived the injuries, was Corbin's.
He faces up to 7 years in prison when he is sentenced on July 28.
"Anyone who would harm an innocent child should not remain free in our community," Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said in a statement Tuesday.
Prosecutors said that, at the time of the assault, Corbin was drinking and arguing on the phone with his girlfriend. The next morning, the baby’s mother came to his apartment and found him sleeping on the couch with the baby next to him in a portable crib.
The mother found injuries to the baby’s chest and face and took the child to Stony Brook University Hospital, where a nurse and a child-abuse pediatrician said the baby showed signs of strangulation and blunt force pressure to the chest and face, prosecutors said.
Corbin alternately said the wounds had been self-inflicted days earlier and that the marks were the result of a rash, prosecutors said. The baby also was found with bruised cheeks in the shape of a handprint and broken blood vessels that doctors said were caused by pressure to the face and chest.
Authorities in the Suffolk police Special Victims Section and the district attorney's Child Abuse & Domestic Violence Bureau investigated the case and filed charges.
Corbin’s attorney could not be reached for comment Tuesday.
John Asbury is a breaking news and general assignment reporter. He has been with Newsday since 2014 and previously worked at The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, California.
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