The Flanders man who allegedly beat his pregnant girlfriend earlier this month, thereby causing her to undergo an emergency surgical delivery, will be arraigned tomorrow by a Suffolk County grand jury, according to Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota.
Mohammed Proctor, 38, was charged with assault in the first degree and criminal obstruction of breathing after the incident at his home on Woodland Trail on August 3.
Proctor’s girlfriend, who was seven months pregnant at the time, arrived at Peconic Bay Medical Center with extensive life-threatening injuries and needed to be rushed into emergency surgery to deliver the child, police said.
The female infant is now receiving care at Stony Brook University Hospital, according to Spota.
Police found Proctor the next day in his Flanders home with his 19-month-son, who was unharmed. He was arrested and remanded to Suffolk County Jail without bail.
Proctor was one of two prisoners released in 2012 after a county probe discredited a Southampton Town police officer assigned to the department’s street crime unit. Proctor had been serving a sentence on felony narcotics charges at the time.
Editor’s note: A criminal charge is an accusation. By law, a person charged with a crime is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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