7-Year-Old Child Found Beaten to Death in New Jersey: Source

A 7-year-old child was found dead in a Newark, New Jersey, home Monday morning, and the mother's boyfriend is the prime suspect, a law enforcement source tells NBC 4 New York.

Police received a call of a child in cardiac arrest at a home in Weequahic Avenue and once on the scene officers started performing CPR in an attempt to revive the child.

According to the source, the child's mother went to work last night while her boyfriend stayed home to watch the child.

The boyfriend allegedly called the mother at work Monday morning to tell her there was something wrong with her child and she told him to call 911, the source says, adding that when EMT arrived at the scene, they found the child on the floor. The boyfriend was not at the home. 

The initial indication is that the child was "beaten to death," the source says, adding that the boyfriend has become the prime suspect. 

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