Friday, 1-year-old Nicholas Dominici died and three other children were hospitalized from suspected opioid exposure.
Grei Mendez, 36, stayed silent as she was walked from the 52nd Police Precinct in handcuffs Sunday.from suspected opioid exposure. First responders had found the babies in cardiac arrest and administered Narcan.
Police investigating if children were exposed to fentanyl in deadly Bronx day care incident, sources say "The way those kids got hurt I think is something that nobody, nobody deserves that. No mother, no grandmother," neighbor Joanne Martinez said. Mendez faces several charges, along with 41-year-old Carlisto Acevedo Brito, who was living in the building. He, too, had nothing to say to cameras. "As a father, you always trust other people to take care of your kids when you go to work. This is the last thing you could possibly think would happen to your son," neighbor Hailey Rivera said. This weekend, Nicholas's grieving parents told CBS New York the day care was recommended to them by a community center, but it was rumored to have been renting out rooms. "If I had known what would have happened," his mother said in Spanish,"I would not have taken him there."Parents of 1-year-old Nicholas Dominici, who died at Bronx day care, grappling with unimaginable loss"The city's gonna have to step up more and go through every day care and investigate them good because the way things happened in there, I don't think it was right," Martinez said. The two suspects are each facing more than 10 charges, including murder, criminal possession of a narcotic and endangering the welfare of a child.
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