WHITE PLAINS — A 25-year-old White Plains man is due in city court tomorrow on a felony assault charge accusing him of biting the arm of his girlfriend's 9-month-old daughter.

The biting occurred in June at the Battle Avenue home where Umberto Salvador-Coronado lived with the woman and the child.

But authorities did not learn about it until two weeks ago after the girl was brought to St. Joseph's Hospital in Yonkers with a skull fracture, reportedly caused by a fall.

Yonkers police, and then White Plains detectives were notified. The exact cause of the injury could not be determined, but during the course of questioning, police determined that Salvador-Coronado bit the girl in the arm during an unrelated incident in June.

Her mother, Maricela Rojas, 19, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor. Police said she knew about the biting, but did nothing to keep Coronado away from the child.

Child Protective Services put the girl in foster care after she was released from the hospital, authorities said.

Salvador-Coronado was charged with second-degree assault, a felony punishable by up to seven years in state prison. He is being held at the Westchester County jail on $10,000 bail.

Rojas is free on $1,000 bail and is due back in City Court on Sept. 11. She faces up to one year in the county jail.


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