Amar Corbin, of Mastic, convicted of strangling, injuring 8-month-old

A Mastic man was convicted Monday of strangling and injuring an 8-month-old baby, prosecutors said.

Amar Corbin, 25, was found guilty by jurors of felony strangulation, assault and misdemeanor endangering the welfare of a child in the May 13, 2025, assault while he was watching the baby.

Authorities did not say whether the baby, who survived the injuries, was Corbin's.

He faces up to seven years in prison when he is sentenced July 28.

"Anyone who would harm an innocent child should not remain free in our community," Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney said in a statement Tuesday.

Prosecutors said that, at the time of the incident, Corbin was drinking and arguing on the phone with his girlfriend. The next morning, the baby’s mother came to his apartment and found him sleeping on the couch with the baby next to him in a portable crib.

The mother found injuries to the baby’s chest and face and took the child to Stony Brook University Medical Center, where a nurse and a child-abuse pediatrician said the baby showed signs of strangulation and blunt force pressure to the chest and face, prosecutors said.

Corbin alternately said the wounds had been self-inflicted days earlier and that the marks were the result of a rash, prosecutors said. The baby was also found with bruised cheeks in the shape of a handprint and broken blood vessels that doctors said were caused by pressure to the face and chest.

Authorities in the Suffolk police Special Victims Section and the district attorney's Child Abuse & Domestic Violence Bureau investigated the case and filed charges.

Corbin’s attorney could not immediately be reached for comment Tuesday.

By John Asbury

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