Latisha Fisher is escorted by police out of the Midtown South Precinct on Tuesday morning.R. Umar AbbasiA woman who claimed to be “hearing the devil’s voice” before allegedly smothering her baby to death has been charged, police said early Tuesday.
The 1-year-old boy was foaming from the mouth when he was found by an employee and rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where he was declared dead, the sources said.
The mother, Latisha Fisher, was later arrested and charged with the tot’s murder, police said.
The diaper bag belonging to Fisher sits on a counter in the 5 Boro Burger restaurant.Robert MeceaThe baby was found after a worker at the 5 Boro Burger restaurant noticed the mom had been inside the bathroom at the eatery on Sixth Avenue near West 36th Street for an “unusual amount of time” at around 2:30 p.m., a source said.
The employee opened the door to find the boy unconscious on the 35-year-old woman’s lap, with foam coming out of his mouth and nose, sources said.
The worker tried performing CPR on the boy until paramedics arrived.
“A baby was taken out with a mask on [his] face . . . then the mother came out in handcuffs,” said a witness, Marcus Comeau, 35. “She didn’t seem too distressed; she had her head down.”
The medical examiner will determine the cause of the death.
Fisher has four prior arrests but three of them were sealed.
In 2011, she assaulted someone with a weapon on the Lower East Side, cops said.
