Contractor convicted of criminally-negligent manslaughter after 5-year-old killed by crumbling wall * Brooklyn Paper
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The owner of a Nassau County construction company was convicted of criminally negligent homicide after a wall built by his company killed a 5-year-old girl in Bushwick due to multiple violations of the NYC Building Code.
The wall was described as 'imminently perilous to life,' lacking steel bars in its pillars and being only held together by its weight and gravity, not meeting the required safety standards.
Read at Brooklyn Paper
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