{"id":320101,"date":"2026-08-13T05:08:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T05:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/320101\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T05:08:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T05:08:21","slug":"nyc-parks-worker-who-helped-si-girl-10-light-an-m-80-that-maimed-her-wanted-child-to-have-fun-da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/320101\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Parks worker who helped SI girl, 10, light an M-80 that maimed her wanted child to &#8216;have fun&#8217;: DA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A city <a href=\"http:\/\/Parascandola, Rocco &lt;rparascandola@nydailynews.com&gt; 11:40\u202fAM (0 minutes ago) to me A 10-year-old girl suffered a hand injury when she ignited an M-80 firework with a lighter lent to her by a city Parks worker, police said Wednesday. The girl was rushed by medics to Staten Island University Hospital North with an injury to a finger on her left hand. The worker, Joshua Moe, 24, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child and reckless endangerment. The incident happened about 7 pm Wednesday at Gen. Douglas MacArthur Park, near Dongan Hills Ave. and Jefferson St. in xxx On Wed, Aug 12, 2026 at 7:28\u202fAM 'DCPI' via PoliceReports &lt;policereports@tribpub.com&gt; wrote: On Tuesday, August 11, 2026, at 1910 hours, the following on-duty New York City employee was arrested and charged within the confines of the 122 Precinct: Arrested: Moe, Joshua 24-year-old male NYC Department of Parks and Recreation employee Charges: Endangering the Welfare of a Child Reckless Endangerment\">Parks Department<\/a> employee arrested for giving a 10-year-old Staten Island girl a lighter \u2014 which she used to detonate an M-80 firework she was holding and severely injure her hand \u2014 told police he helped the child out so she could \u201chave fun,\u201d prosecutors said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Parks worker, Joshua Moe, 24, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child and reckless endangerment after the child lost parts of her fingers on her left hand when the firework went off Tuesday evening, <a href=\"https:\/\/compstat.nypdonline.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t think this would have happened,\u201d Moe told police, according to the criminal complaint. \u201cShe wanted the lighter to light a firework.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to make them happy and have fun,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Responding officers used a tourniquet on the girl\u2019s hand before medics rushed her to Staten Island University Hospital North for care.<\/p>\n<p>Besides losing parts of her fingers on her left hand, the child suffered a cut to her right hand and burns to her left hand and left arm, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened around 7 p.m. at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycgovparks.org\/parks\/gen-douglas-macarthur-park\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gen. Douglas MacArthur Park<\/a>, near Dongan Hills Ave. and Jefferson St. in Dongan Hills.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the girl found the firework while playing in the park and then asked Moe to help her light it, which he allegedly did using his lighter.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of issuing bail, a judge ordered Moe to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/crime-safety\/2026\/08\/nyc-parks-worker-allegedly-spoke-to-cops-after-girl-10-was-hurt-in-staten-island-firework-incident.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">be enrolled in a supervised release program<\/a> which would ensure his return to court following his arraignment in Staten Island criminal court Wednesday, according to the Staten Island Advance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A city Parks Department employee arrested for giving a 10-year-old Staten Island girl a lighter \u2014 which she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[120530,120533,120531,120529,9,24,63,38496,134,136,135,120532],"class_list":["post-320101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-firework-injury","tag-hand-injury","tag-injured-child","tag-m-80","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-parks-department","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-young-girl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}