The K2-addicted Bronx mom who slipped through the cracks with ACS to keep her 5-month-old son — and then allegedly killed the boy — told cops that she didn’t love the baby because he reminded her of his dad, according to new court documents obtained by The Post.
Joann McLeod, 30, is accused of fatally throwing her son, Raymond Porfil Jr., against a wall and then putting him in his crib rather than calling 911 for fear of going to jail.
Raymond Jr.’s 19-month-old sister, Rayjasmin, also lived with them in the apartment, even though McLeod had three other children removed from her care in 2010 by the city Administration for Children’s Services because of her drug use and “medical neglect,” according to sources.
ACS visited Raymond’s squalid Bronx River Houses apartment just weeks before the baby’s death and allowed little Raymond and Rayjasmin to remain with her.
The day after McLeod’s June 4 arrest for allegedly killing her son, she admitted that “she loved [Rayjasmin] more and did not care much for the boy because he reminded her of the father,” court documents said.
The boy’s father, Raymond Porfil Sr., previously told The Post, “One time when I wasn’t there, she hit him in the eyes. I think she hit him because he looked like me, and to her, I was a bastard.”
Porfil Sr. said everything went downhill when he left to check himself into rehab two months earlier.
The court papers also revealed McLeod’s admission of rampant neglect, including not even taking the baby — who was born prematurely — to the doctor for his shots and for primary care despite direction to do so.
McLeod “admitted that she only fed him when he cried and largely left him unattended,” the court papers say.
When trying to explain to officials the infant’s multiple skull fractures and brain swelling, she told cops the baby had fallen off a kitchen chair a day earlier and then tumbled off the bed the day he died and another time months earlier.
McLeod also admitted to wayward tactics in attempting to revive her unresponsive son, including splashing hot and cold water on him and shaking him.
At one point, she even “slapped [the] baby in the face to get [the] baby to respond,” the court papers say.
At one point, McLeod scrambled in an apparent attempt to save her own tail by telling a detective that she found a sock stuffed in her son’s mouth which he must have put there after Rayjasmin had throw things into his playpen, authorities have said.
Officials announced Monday that McLeod was indicted on second-degree murder and manslaughter charges. She remains behind bars pending trial and is due back in court Oct. 2.