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ACS WORKER ATTACKS CHILD

Ex-con ACS worker accused of attacking 6-year-old boy in Manhattan Ad Duration 00:00 PLAY PLAY Current time LIVE Duration TOGGLE MUTE Volume SETTINGS PIP TOGGLE FULLSCREEN Candace McCowan, Eyewitness News Updated 39 mins ago KIPS BAY, Manhattan (WABC) --  A child welfare worker is accused of attacking a little boy in Manhattan and Eyewitness News has learned troubling details about his criminal past. Questions remain on how the employee was hired by ACS in the first place after he served 28 years behind bars for second-degree murder. Jacques Edwards, 55, was working Friday at the Nicholas Scoppetta Children's Center on 1st Avenue when the incident happened. EMBED  MORE NEWS VIDEOS NJ Burkett reports on the child welfare worker accused of attacking a little boy in Manhattan. Police say he's accused of pushing a 6-year-old boy in ACS custody into a door, before carrying him to a large metal cabinet