What Happened
A Suffolk County jury has convicted Amar Corbin, a 25-year-old man from Mastic, after prosecutors said he choked an 8-month-old baby who had been left in his care, according to News 12 Long Island.
The case stems from the night of May 13, 2025. Prosecutors said Corbin was watching the infant while drinking, and that he became increasingly angry during a phone argument with his then-girlfriend. By the next morning, the baby’s mother saw injuries on the child’s face and chest and brought the infant to Stony Brook University Hospital.
The public report does not identify the child, the child’s mother, or the exact statutory count on which Corbin was convicted. That matters: the facts reported publicly support the broad outline of the prosecution’s case, but they do not provide the full indictment, jury sheet, or sentencing exposure analysis. What is clear is that prosecutors characterized the injuries as the result of pressure applied to the baby’s face and chest, and the jury returned a conviction.
The case is being tracked here as part of the Long Island Crime Blotter, which follows serious Nassau and Suffolk public-safety cases from arrest through verdict and sentencing.
Medical Evidence Described at Trial
According to News 12, prosecutors said a forensic nurse examiner determined the infant had been strangled. A child abuse pediatrician also found injuries that prosecutors described as consistent with blunt force pressure to the baby’s face and chest.
Medical experts documented bruising on the infant’s cheeks in the shape of a handprint, along with broken blood vessels on the face and upper body. Those broken blood vessels, witnesses testified, were caused by significant pressure applied to the baby’s face and chest.
Those details are disturbing, but they are also central to understanding why the verdict is legally significant. In child-injury prosecutions, medical testimony often becomes the backbone of the case: the timing, pattern and mechanism of injury can help distinguish accidental contact from deliberate force. Here, prosecutors presented the medical findings as evidence that the baby had been choked and subjected to pressure while in Corbin’s care.
Court Timeline and Sentencing
Corbin is scheduled to return to court for sentencing on July 28, 2026. News 12 reported that he faces a maximum sentence of up to seven years in prison.
The source report did not list the precise charge of conviction, so LongIslandTraffic is not assigning a Penal Law section or speculating about the jury’s exact finding. If court records or the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office later release the indictment count, sentence, or a formal post-verdict statement, this article should be updated rather than duplicated.
That timeline discipline is important for local crime coverage. A case like this can generate multiple search bursts: verdict, sentencing, possible appeal, and any later custody or civil developments. Keeping those updates on one canonical page gives readers a clearer record and avoids scattering the same case across thin follow-up posts.
Why This Case Matters in the Crime Blotter
Mastic is part of the Town of Brookhaven, one of Suffolk County’s largest municipalities by both land area and population. Serious child-injury cases in Brookhaven and the surrounding Shirley-Mastic-Mastic Beach corridor draw heavy local attention because they sit at the intersection of family safety, emergency medicine and criminal prosecution.
This article is not traffic-crash coverage, and it should not be treated like a routine incident stub. It belongs in the Crime Blotter because it is a major trial-verdict development involving a local defendant, a vulnerable child victim and a pending sentencing date. Readers looking for broader public-safety context can follow the Crime Blotter or our general Know Your Rights resources.
For now, the key date is July 28, 2026. That is when Corbin is expected back in court for sentencing, where the judge will determine the penalty within the range available after the jury’s verdict.