17-MONTH-OLD BROOKLYN BOY NEARLY BEATEN TO DEATH IN A FOSTER HOME!

A severely beaten toddler clinging to life in Brooklyn last night was visited just last month by child welfare workers, sources said Friday.

At least one employee from the city's Administration for Children's Services came to his foster mother's East New York apartment, but saw nothing to suggest 17-month-old Kymell Oram might be in danger.

"The apartment was in okay shape and there was food in the refrigerator," a police source said. "Apparently that's all they look at."

Neighbors said the suspected abuse was an open secret. One told the Daily News she saw Kymell more than once sitting alone crying in a hallway.

"Sometimes when the baby was crying they would leave the baby outside the door," Maribel Pejada said. "He would hit his head against the door trying to get in. It was awful."

Pejada heard the boy screaming Thursday morning. None of the neighbors ever called the police.

As Kymell lay near death at Brookdale University Hospital yesterday - three ribs broken and his spleen crushed - police grilled 32-year-old Teyuanna Cummings.

And they were looking to question her 19-year-old boyfriend, Kysheen Oliver, known in the neighborhood as 'Killer.' No one has been charged.

Cops responding to Cummings' 911 call just after 9 a.m. Thursday about a child with difficulty breathing were horrified by what they found on Fountain Ave.

Kymell looked "like he was thrown against the wall on a daily basis" and was "covered with deep bruises," sources said.

"That boy is her pride and joy," said the foster mom's lifelong friend Michael, 40. "She loves him like you wouldn't believe. I've never seen a more caring mother."

Michael said the little boy flatlined at the hospital, but the "good doctors were able to bring him back to life."

Police sources said the boy had tears around the anus that made investigators initially think he had been sodomized.

"It is possible the injuries came from kicking the child like a ball," one of the sources said.

In addition to Kymell, Cummings has another foster child - a troubled 9-year-old boy - and is the biological mother of a 10-year-old daughter, sources said. The daughter told cops her mommy never hit them, a police source said.

Neither of the older children showed obvious signs of abuse, they said.

The ACS, which has a record of failing other vulnerable city children, is investigating Cummings and has asked Family Court to put her kids in protective care.

This is not Cummings' first brush with the law.

In November 2009, she was charged with assault after getting into a hair-pulling fight with a girlfriend. The case was dismissed.

Last October, Cummings was caught shoplifting baby clothes from a local Target store. She was not taking care of either foster child at the time, sources said.


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