Born 11 weeks early — allegedly because of a jealous wife’s diabolical plot — little Anthony Jones Jr. is fighting for his life at Kings County Hospital, experts said yesterday.
Anthony, believed to have entered the world at just two to three pounds, is likely strapped to a ventilator, being fed intravenously and living in a temperature-controlled incubator for premature babies, or Isolette, said Dr. Alok Bhutada, head of Maimonedes Medical Center’s Neonatal Care Unit.
Bhutada — who hasn’t examined Anthony — puts his chance of survival at 95 percent.
“The first three days were the most important in terms of a long-term prognosis,” he said.
Keisha Jones, who allegedly tried to kill the unborn child of her husband’s much younger mistress, was hauled into court yesterday.
Anthony’s terrified mother, Monique Hunter, meanwhile, went into hiding, relatives said.
Jones, 38, is accused of duping Hunter, 25, into taking a pill meant to destroy her fetus. It induced labor two months early, but the baby survived.
Furious that her stab at infanticide was foiled, Jones allegedly sent “breast milk” to the hospital a week later. But nurses thought it looked odd, and called police.
Jones was not formally charged yesterday — she has a date with a grand jury Wednesday — but shocking new details of the alleged plot emerged.
She allegedly stole a prescription pad from Dr. Ray Rezano and forged a scrip for Cytotec, which can cause women in the early stages of pregnancy to miscarry.
She then used a “spoof card” to disguise her phone number and called Hunter pretending to be a nurse from her doctor’s office, cops said.
Jones left messages saying that the doctor had “sent a prescription to Kings Pharmacy and that [Hunter] needed to take the medication right away or the child would have Down syndrome,” according to the police complaint.
Hunter unwittingly took the pill a week later, and went into labor on Oct. 26. Anthony was delivered at just 28 weeks.
Jones, who has denied the allegations, will likely face charges of attempted abortion, assault, possession of a forged instrument, forgery, and possession of stolen property.
Additional reporting by Eddie DeMarche and Georgett Roberts