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Mamaroneck mom used heliumto try to suffocate son, 4, sourcesaysOriginally published: October 2, 2012 12:22 PMUpdated: October 2, 2012 8:38 PMBy TIMOTHY O'CONNOR AND THOMAS ZAMBITO [email protected]
Photo credit: Elizabeth Daza/Village of Mamaroneck Police Department | Manuela Morgado, 46, right, is accused of killing her 4-year-old son in what police believe was a murder-attempted suicide at Morgado's Mamaroneck apartment. (Oct. 1, 2012)
A Mamaroneck mother accused of killing her 4-year-old son usedhelium in an attempt to suffocate the child, a law enforcement sourcetold Newsday.
That might not have killed the child, so she then may have tried someother way to smother him, the source said.
An official determination as to how Jason Reish died could take up tosix weeks as police await the results of toxicology tests.
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Investigators believe Manuela Maria Morgado, 46, may have tried tosuffocate her son with helium because she recently bought a mask,tube and the gas online, according to the law enforcement source.Helium inhaled through a mask without any oxygen can suffocate aperson.
Morgado, who has been charged with second-degree murder, wasinvolved in a long-running custody battle in Westchester CountyFamily Court and had lost a round in the court fight in September,according to the source. The child's father, Timothy Reish, anorthopedic surgeon, was never married to Morgado. He had reunitedin Briarcliff Manor with his wife, from whom he had separated severalyears ago. While separated, he met and had a relationship withMorgado, sources said.
Jason, Morgado's only child, was killed between 8 p.m. Sunday andabout 10:20 a.m. Monday, when Mamaroneck police arrived atMorgado's home, a condominium at 1035 E. Boston Post Rd.,according to a felony complaint against her.
On Friday, she was stymied in an attempt in the state's appellate court to have Jason -- who had acondition diagnosed as requiring special education -- moved to Mamaroneck Community NurserySchool. Timothy Reish had enrolled his son at Scarborough Presbyterian Children's Center inBriarcliff, where Reish lives. Morgado felt the child would receive better services at the Mamaroneckschool, said her lawyer Dennis Light.
Light called Morgado on Friday afternoon to tell her the appellate judge had not granted her request,deciding instead to wait until after the next scheduled Westchester Family Court appearance Oct. 16to make a ruling. The judge scheduled a hearing in Brooklyn for Oct. 17.
"She did not take it well," Light said. He described their conversation as abrupt and short.
But he, said, there was no indication she was distraught.
"There was nothing to indicate there was violence on the horizon," he said. "She probably gotdistraught after that, thinking the case was lost."
Although Morgado and Reish were adversaries, there was no animosity in the court proceedings,Light said.
The custody arrangement was for each parent to have Jason half the time, an arrangement Light saidwas "untenable in the long run."
Both parents were in agreement that the child needed special education services -- an individualizededucation plan, Light said. They were in disagreement over which was the better preschool for thoseservices, he said. Light had represented Morgado since March. The custody arrangement wasalready in place when Morgado hired him, he said.
Jason Reish was smiling and laughing as he had dinner with his father, who had partial custody, justthree days before he was killed, said Anthony Romano, owner of Paese Pasta and Pizza in BriarcliffManor.
"He's a great kid," Romano said. "He was running around here just the other night."
Romano said he got to know the family well during the past decade, catering birthdays for the Reish
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children and hosting the family at his restaurant. He added that he "didn't sleep all night" after learningof the boy's death.
He described Jason's smile and laugh as his father tried to get him to sit still for dinner Thursdaynight.
Morgado was arraigned in Village of Mamaroneck Court late Monday and is being held without bail atWestchester County Jail in Valhalla. She is due back in court Thursday.
The Westchester County medical examiner's office referred calls to Mamaroneck police, who did notrespond to requests for comment Tuesday.
Under questioning, Morgado was uncooperative, providing false information about her birthplace andage, sources said.
Police are investigating whether Jason was the victim of an attempted murder-suicide.
Police responding to a call from family members concerned about Morgado arrived at her homeMonday morning to find her and Jason on the bed in her bedroom. The boy was already dead, andMorgado was in a "semiconscious" state, Mamaroneck Village police Det. Sandra DiRuzza said in anemail statement Monday.
Before Morgado's arrest, law enforcement sources told Newsday that she had attempted to kill herselfand had left a suicide note. Various prescription medicine was found in Morgado's home. Police areexamining a video found at the scene, though it is unclear what its contents are, a source said. Theyalso found syringes of the type that are commonly used to orally administer children's medicine. Noneedles were found and no video camera was discovered, sources said.
Morgado's neighbors remained stunned Tuesday by the incident.
"It makes no sense," said neighbor Amanda Pugliese, 20, who added that Morgado moved into theapartment complex in December.
Pugliese said she saw the family in the hallways or in the laundry room, where the mother wouldalways remind her son to be polite.
"He was a cute little boy," Pugliese said, "I don't know how something like this could happen. She wasalways telling him to mind his manners. She was a single mom. It must have been hard."
Morgado, a graphic artist who works for a direct marketing company in New York City, had filed forbankruptcy twice in New Jersey, according to court records. She first filed in 1992. The details of thatfiling were unavailable.
In 2010, Morgado filed again for personal bankruptcy, citing debts of more than $470,000 and assetsof about $430,000, including a Hoboken condominium valued at $399,000, according to court records.
Among her assets, she listed $3,000 a month in child support payments from Reish.
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