"It was horrible," Casilla, now 49, told The Post. "It broke my heart." Casilla was one of the first to respond to a call of a baby at Presbyterian Hospital barely breathing. "The baby had a skull fracture from one side of the ear to the other," said Casilla. "He was on life support for a little while."
Greer had recently moved to the Big Apple in 2014 from Puerto Rico when she told Casilla she had to head to work and was expecting her then-boyfriend's sister to watch Joemill. But the sister called and asked Greer if it was OK if her husband watched the infant instead. The mom felt she didn't have any other option.
The day they pulled him off life support the mom gave me a little Ziploc bag with a little piece of his hair in it," Casilla recalled. Since then, Casilla and the mom, Barbara Greer, have kept in touch.
When they met Oct. 27, on the 10th anniversary of Joemill's tragic beating, Casilla gave her a replica of the blanket she had found on eBay. "I wasn't expecting something like that," Greer said. "I was just expecting to see her. I went all the way to the ground and she went with me."
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