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The absolute madness of legalized recreational drugs! It's almost always children who pay for the madness of adults.
1-year-old dead, 3 other children hospitalized after possibly
consuming fentanyl at Bronx day care: sources
By Larry Celona, Steven Vago, Amanda Woods and Patrick Reilly
Published Sep. 15, 2023, 10:51 p.m. ET
A 1-year-old boy is dead and three other children hospitalized after possibly ingesting fentanyl at a Bronx day care center Friday afternoon, police sources said.
The horrific scene unfolded around 2:40 p.m. at Divino Nino on Morris Avenue in the Kingsbridge neighborhood, where the four tots — the 1-year-old boy, two 2-year-old boys and an 8-month-old girl — were found unresponsive in the basement, sources said.
The children had gone down for naps and were supposed to wake up at 2:30 p.m., sources said. They had all eaten something about 90 minutes earlier.
2707 Morris avenue in the Bronx. Friday, September 2023
One child is dead and three others have been hospitalized after possibly consuming fentanyl at a Bronx day care center on Friday afternoon.
Peter Gerber
Three children were administered Narcan, one of whom responded to the life-saving drug, cops said.
All four were rushed to area hospitals, where the 1-year-old boy was declared dead.
The three others are in stable condition, police said. The 8-month-old girl was treated for dehydration, according to sources.
Three others — a 2-year-old boy, an 8-month-old girl and a third child whose age and gender were not immediately known — were taken to area hospitals in stable condition.
Christopher Sadowski
Police are now investigating whether the children consumed fentanyl, or another drug, sources said.
Mel Ramirez, 26, lives next to the day care and said she heard a worker screaming in horror.
“She was yelling for help. She was screaming and saying, ‘The kids are dead! The kids are dead!’ multiple times,” Ramirez said.
When she went outside, she saw one child unresponsive on the ground by the day care entrance and a sobbing woman trying to help another unconscious child.
“They were just pale and unresponsive,” she recalled of the heartbreaking scene. “[One of the boys’] mouth was, like, open. I was like, ‘Oh my God. I can’t do anything about it either.’”
Neighbor Anna Ortiz Irving, 73, said a mother and daughter run Divino Nino Day Care and live in the building.
“It’s a legit day care. It’s brand new. Just a few kids, mostly babies. They’re such decent people,” she said.
“I watched them fix the whole place up. It was beautiful, all according to city code. If I had a baby, I would send it there.”
Divino Nino Day Care just passed its annual unannounced inspection with zero violations on Sept. 6, according to city records. It had received its license in May.
The day care has a capacity of eight children between the ages of six weeks to 12 years old, records show.
A search warrant was being executed at the center Friday night and a white decontamination tent was set up outside the building.
Additional reporting by Nolan Hicks and Joe Marino
Why were there any kind of drugs in a daycare center? This will not end well for the mother and daughter who ran the facility, nor should it. They have to come down very hard on whoever was responsible for bringing drugs into the daycare so as to scare the living daylights out of anyone else who thinks it's OK to mix drugs and children.
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Unbelievable, running a drug lab in a daycare center. Astonishing evil!
Bronx daycare center owner, neighbor charged in 1-y/o’s death
after possible fentanyl exposure
By Patrick Reilly, NYPost
Published Sep. 17, 2023, 12:34 a.m. ET
The owner of the Bronx day care center where a 1-year-old boy died after being exposed to what may have been fentanyl on Friday was charged Saturday night with murder along with her neighbor, police announced.
The pair were taken into police custody on Saturday after a search of the building revealed nearly a kilo of fentanyl, as well as multiple kilo presses — a device used to combine fentanyl with other drugs like cocaine and heroin, officials and sources said.
Ventura, who sources say is a native of the Dominican Republic who recently moved to the US, opened the Kingsbridge day care in May and the facility passed a surprise annual inspection Sept. 6, records show.
Nicholas Feliz Dominici is the 1-year-old boy who died from a possible fentanyl at Divino Nino Daycare.
Yeissy Dominici/Facebook
21-month-old Nicholas Dominici died on Friday after he and three other toddlers — a 1-year-old boy, two 2-year-old boys and an 8-month-old girl — were found unresponsive in the basement after they are believed to have inhaled the deadly drug.
Two of the tots were in cardiac arrest when first responders arrived at the facility, with Nicholas and a 2-year-old boy being given multiple doses of the overdose-reversing drug Narcan, authorities said.
Nicholas was rushed to Montefiore hospital, where he died, police said.
Police said Saturday night that the 2-year-old boy remains in critical condition and the 8-month-old female is listed in stable condition.
A fourth child, a 2-year-old boy, picked up from the day care center just before 1 p.m. Friday also appeared to have been exposed to drugs.
He was privately transported to BronxCare Health System and is in stable condition, cops said.
In addition to murder, they are each also charged with: manslaughter of a person under 11 years old; manslaughter recklessly causing death; four counts assault causing injury through risk of death; four counts of assault causing injury during a felony; four counts of assault causing serious injury; four counts of reckless assault causing serious injury; three counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance; criminal possession of a controlled substance; criminal possession of narcotics; and four counts of endangering the welfare of a child.
Friday was the end of Nicholas’ first week at the Morris Avenue day care, the boy’s grieving father Otoniel Feliz, told reporters.
He said he initially thought his son was sick from carbon monoxide poisoning.
“It was a peaceful place, it seemed like they would take good care [of the kids]. They always keep in contact with us. Everything seemed fine,” he said.
“We expected that we were taking our son to a place where he would be taken care of, not to the funeral home.”
If NY had the death penalty, someone should get it.
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