{"id":344383,"date":"2026-09-11T22:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T22:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/344383\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T22:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T22:00:10","slug":"news-12-bronx-woman-wanted-for-punching-4-year-old-boy-inside-joyce-kilmer-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/344383\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Woman Wanted For Punching 4 Year Old Boy Inside Joyce Kilmer Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police are looking for a woman who they say punched a 4-year-old boy inside Joyce Kilmer Park.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It happened at around 6:30 a.m. on Aug. 31 near Walton Avenue and East 164th Street.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Sources close to the investigation say the alleged attacker was at the park with her son when he began &#8220;playfighting&#8221; with the 4-year-old victim, who was also accompanied by his mother.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The woman then walked up to the child and struck him above the eye.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say paramedics took the boy to BronxCare Health System. He suffered minor injuries and is expected to recover physically.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to investigators, the woman took off after the assault. She is approximately in her 30s and was last seen wearing a gray shirt and black pants.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police urge anyone with information to call the NYPD&#8217;s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are looking for a woman who they say punched a 4-year-old boy inside Joyce Kilmer Park. It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-344383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344383","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=344383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}