By ALEX GINSBERG
Last updated: 8:13 am
July 2, 2008
Posted: 4:03 am
July 2, 2008
A Brooklyn woman accused of killing the 3-year-old boy she cared for tried to kill herself after the tot died, according her boyfriend's statement to cops.
In court papers made public yesterday, Lemar Martin, 25, says he was trying to perform CPR on the child, Kyle Smith, on June 6, when he saw his girlfriend searching for a bottle of pills.
"Just let me take these," the woman, Nymeen Cheatham , 31, told her boyfriend, according to his statement. "I don't want to suffer with the memory of this. You wasn't here, so nothing should bother you about what's happening with Kyle."
Cheatham and Martin each faces up to 25 years in prison on manslaughter charges.
The couple took custody of Kyle last fall, after the boy's biological mother asked them to care for him
