A black father hurled his seven-week-old baby son headfirst on to the concrete sidewalk after a row with the baby's mother

Carmello Sears is now fighting for his life in Massachusetts General Hospital after suffering a fractured skull and bleeding to the brain. His mother, Crystle, screamed and screamed "you killed my child! You killed my child!" after her boyfriend Carlos Edwards slammed her baby to the ground when she refused to give him money. Edwards, 33, walked away from his son as his little body lay motionless on the sidewalk before fleeing to the home he shared with his wife, who had no idea he had been seeing Sears for two years - nor that he had a son. The 23-year-old mother-of-three is now keeping an anxious vigil by her son's bedside as doctors wait to see whether he has been left with brain damage. Little Carmello was critically injured, after his father arrived demanding money from Sears. When she refused, he pulled Carmello out of her arms and refused to hand him back until she gave him the money. Fearful for her son's safety, she relented and gave him her electronic benefits card, screaming for him to give her baby back. Instead he turned round and threw his son four feet in the air from chest height, shouting: "Take your baby! I hope you both die." The baby brushed his mother's shoulder but slammed into sidewalk. Edwards has pleaded not guilty to assault and battery of a child, causing bodily injury, and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.