Metro

Harlem dad walks free as prosecutors continue to investigate reckless endangerment case

Manhattan prosecutors today agreed to let a Harlem dad walk free — for now — on charges that he let his badly-injured infant boy languish three days with a fractured skull and multiple other cracked bones.

The failure by Dudley Recco, 26, to call a doctor after he dropped his six-week-old boy in the family’s Harlem home last month caused the baby to suffer permanent blindness, prosecutors had charged last week.

Still Recco was sprung just before noon today on consent of prosecutors, who are continuing to investigate the tragic case and have yet to convene a grand jury.

The alleged bad dad remains charged with first degree reckless endangerment and endangering the welfare of a child.

Prosecutors had stressed the seriousness of the case in asking on Jan. 25 that Recco be held on high bail.

The dad had just taken the baby from the bath, and was reaching for a towel, when the baby slipped from his arm and became wedged between a crib and a wall, according to the charges.

The infant’s skull was so seriously fractured in the December 1 incident, that his brain and retinal nerves bled on both side of his head, the charges allege.

The baby additionally suffered three fractured ribs, and a fractured arm and leg.

Recco, who has two other children ages 3 and 11, has insisted he didn’t know the baby needed prompt doctor’s care.

He has cooperated with ACS and detectives, his lawyer had said last week, as a judge set $10,000 cash bail.

Today, the lawyer, Archana Prakash, declined to comment as her client dashed out of Manhattan Criminal Court.