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Co-worker testifies against Tirado
October 5, 2007
By Matt McFarland
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ALBANY - One of the two men accused
in the death of a 13-year-old boy with autism testified in Albany
County Court Thursday. Nadeem Mall was driving the van during the
outing when prosecutors say Edwin Tirado restrained Jonathan Carey
and caused him to stop breathing. Mall pleaded guilty to
manslaughter in July and is now serving a six-month sentence in the
Albany County Jail. In exchange for a lighter sentence, Mall agreed
to testify against Tirado.
Mall testified that Tirado
restrained Jonathan in the back of a van last February. He asked if
Tirado needed help and was told no. Mall claimed that after they
stopped to get a drink at a gas station, Tirado told him the boy
stopped breathing. He says instead of getting help, they continued
to a video game store and Tirado's house before returning to the O.D.
Heck Developmental Center in Niskayuna.
At that point, Mall says Carey's
face was blue and Tirado told him, "I think I killed him."
The day of testimony was difficult
for the parents of Jonathan Carey.
"It's very painful to listen to his
testimony, even though we have been made aware of those details
ahead of time," Jonathan's mother, Lisa Carey, said outside the
courtroom.
"That neither one of them attempted
to do CPR, nothing. Not only the negligence and the manslaughter of
my own son, none of them attempted to revive him or call 911,"
Michael Carey said.
Tirado's lawyer says the jury will
get the real story when Tirado takes the stand.
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