Brooklyn mom busted for whipping son, 9, with extension cord: NYPD

Mar 28, 2025

A 37-year-old Brooklyn mom and pediatric nurse was arrested for allegedly whipping her child with an extension cord after cops found the 9-year-old boy wandering the streets after midnight, police said.

Tsahay Nurse is facing second-degree assault charges after cops found the boy by himself at Flatbush and Snyder Aves. in Flatbush at 12:38 a.m. Tuesday, cops said. It’s Nurse’s first arrest, according to police.

The child, who had “multiple lacerations” on both his arms, according to police, told officers that he had run away from home because Nurse had whipped him with an extension cord. The boy also said Nurse punched him in the chest and choked him, cops said.

A police source with knowledge of the case told the Daily News that the mother became upset and aggressive over a ski mask the boy had in his possession.

“She’s a single mother who is disciplining her kids because he did something that he wasn’t supposed to do,” the child’s great-aunt, Jennifer Braithwaite, told the Daily News.

At around the time the child was found wandering the streets, Nurse, who lives about five blocks away, called 911 reporting her son missing. Braithwaite said the family had been looking for the child for about two hours before Nurse called the cops.

Responding officers took Nurse to Flatbush Ave., where she identified the child as her son. After hearing the boy’s claims, she was taken into custody on suspicion of child abuse.

Braithwaite said the child had never been inappropriately disciplined before and is well-treated.

Nurse is a practicing pediatric nurse, according to her LinkedIn profile.

The child was taken to University Hospital at Downstate for observation. His father went with him, cops said.

Kim Nurse, the child’s grandmother, said the boy ran out of the house after he was disciplined.

“That’s when we started looking for him,” she said.

Cops also charged Tsahay Nurse with strangulation, child abandonment, criminal obstruction of breathing, harassment and disorderly conduct, cops said.

Her arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court was pending Wednesday.

This story has been updated.