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Quiet Acknowledgment is Powerful: Rethinking Suicide Prevention for Older Adults By Dr. Tyshawn J. Thompson, Clinical Psychologist, Montefiore-Einstein Psychiatry Associates  Bronx Voice  August 21, 2025 NEW YORK - Despite continued awareness and prevention efforts, suicide remains a leading cause of death in the U.S. Many conversations about suicide risk focus on youth and middle-aged populations, while older adults tend to go unnoticed - but they are an important group to consider.  Sadly, death by suicide is highest for men older than 75 years . Older adults can face many factors that increase their risk for suicidal thoughts and actions including: feelings of loneliness, social isolation, grief, family discord, new cognitive and physical deficits, financial strain, and institutionalization.  Recently, I had a conversation with a close family member who shared feelings of anxiety and a fear of losin...
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Man Indicted for Torturing Girlfriend to Death

Princesa Encarnacion Soto. -Social media
Princesa Encarnacion Soto. -Social media

Victim Was Tied up for a Week, Brutalized With Hammer


Defendant’s Mother Allegedly Concealed Body 


Bronx Voice 

August 20, 2024

 

BRONX - District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced that a Bronx man and his mother have been indicted on first-degree murder and additional charges for torturing and killing a Rhode Island woman.




 

Clark said, “The victim was allegedly tortured by her ex-boyfriend for a week before he ultimately killed her. His mother allegedly helped cover his heinous actions by cleaning up the carnage he left in their home. The mother and son are now both indicted for murder.”

 




Clark said the defendants, Robert Stother, 27, and his mother Naida Jorge, 54, both of the Grand Concourse, were indicted on two counts of first-degree murder. Second-degree murder, first-degree Manslaughter, two counts of first-degree kidnapping, second-degree kidnapping, fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, concealment of a human corpse, tampering with physical evidence, and first-degree hindering prosecution. 


The defendants were arraigned on August 18, 2025, by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Darlene Goldberg and were remanded. Their next court appearance is scheduled for November 13, 2025.




 

According to the investigation, on July 11, 2025, the victim, Princesa Encarnacion Soto, 21, began communicating with Strother, her ex-boyfriend, on social media and went to visit him in his Bronx home. From July 14th to July 22nd, the defendant allegedly tied Soto up with rope and repeatedly hit her with a hammer and slashed her all about the body. On July 22, 2025, the victim’s severely beaten body was recovered from the stairwell of 2295 Grand Concourse.




 

On July 22, 2025, residents of the building reporting seeing Jorge carrying multiple garbage bags. The investigation found the bags allegedly contained rope, pillows, towels, and sheets covered in blood. Jorge later allegedly told a neighbor to call police about the victim’s body in the stairwell.

 

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant District Johnathan Vega of the Homicide Bureau, under the supervision of Namani Burim, Deputy Chief of the Homicide Bureau, and Christine Scaccia, Chief of the Homicide Bureau, and under the overall supervision of James Brennan, Deputy Chief of the Trial Division, and Theresa Gottlieb, Chief of the Trial Division. 


 

An indictment is an accusatory instrument and not proof of a defendant’s guilt.
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