A Hillside nurse has been charged with scalding a 2-year-old Jersey City girl on Friday, leaving her in critical condition with third degree burns to her "lower extremities," officials said today.
The nurse, Ellen Ejimkonye, 30, made her first court appearance today on the charges of aggravated assault on Destiny Malak, endangering the welfare of the child and child abuse, the criminal complaint says....
...Destiny, who was born prematurely and requires the care of in-home nurses, is on a feeding tube and will need extreme grafting in order to minimize scarring from the burns that cover over 18 percent of her body, Gurgis said....
There is no one listed by the name Ellen Ejimkonye in the registry:
