A Brooklyn man was arraigned Wednesday in connection with the beating of his girlfriend's 3-year-old son.
Salvatore Lucchesse, 24, was remanded and charged with assault and child endangerment.
Prosecutors say he beat Jaydon Jordan, and that the boy suffered a lacerated liver and a brain injury.
Police say he told them the child fell in the shower and hit his head.
Jaydon was found unconscious and covered in feces inside an apartment on West Fifth Street in Gravesend Monday afternoon.
Meanwhile, the city's child welfare agency is under scrutiny over the case.
The Department of Investigation is asking for records on the boy.
The Administration for Children's Services released a statement saying it received an anonymous report on the case over the weekend, but the tipster gave officials the wrong address.
DOI has been investigating the agency since May for "oversight failures."