Jaden Jordan, The Toddler Who Was On Life Support, Has Been Pronounced Dead

Jaden Jordan lived a short life that was allegedly ravaged by terror at the hands of his mother’s boyfriend, Salvatore Lucchesse, 24, who police say kept Jaden locked in a dog cage, intimidated him with pit bulls, and put him on life support last week with a fractured skull and lacerations on his kidney and liver.

Jaden was fighting to survive in the hospital, but the doctors and his father held little hope for the child’s future. He was pronounced dead last night after his family took him off life support, according to police.

The three-year-old lasted for five days after he was found unresponsive and covered in feces on November 28 in his home on West 5 Street in Gravesend, police said.

He was brought to Coney Island Hospital last Monday, and then transferred to New York Presbyterian-Colombia in Manhattan where he was put on life support.

The Administration for Children’s Services was tipped off about abuse in the home by neighbors but was given the wrong address.  They’re under fire for letting Jaden pass the point of no return while they scrambled for three days to find the right address, which was next door to the residence they first went to.

Police have charged Lucchesse with four counts of assault, and endangerment of a child — the charges are expected to be upgraded to murder. Lucchesse was brought into the 61st Precinct for questioning last week. He originally told police the child had slipped in the tub.

He is now being held at Rikers Island without bail where he is confidently saying he saved Jaden’s life and is complaining about not being given enough to eat, according to the Daily News.

Lucchesse, who has four prior arrests and was mentioned in numerous NYPD domestic incident reports, according to the News, maintains his innocence. His lawyer argued that the child’s injuries were the result of Lucchesse giving him CPR.

Jaden and his mother, Raven Haynes, 24, weren’t involved in Lucchesse’s past domestic incidents. However, four of the reports involved the same woman. One charge notes that Lucchesse broke an order of protection, another says he choked his five-year-old nephew in 2011, according to the News.