Owner of the NYC Day Care, in which toddler fatally took Fentanyl

New York (AP) – A woman who had a New York City Care Care Center in which a toddler died after he had taken Fentanyl, 45 years in prison was sentenced to guilty for the federal drug accusations.

The 37-year-old Grei Mendez dropped her head into her entangled weapons when judge Jed S. Rakoff announced the judgment that died in Mendez 'family and the mother, whose 22 months old child, Nicholas Feliz-Dominici, triggered sobs in September 2023.

Rakoff had previously convicted Mendez 'husband Felix Herrera-Garcia after he had guilty about drug accusations and caused physical damage in connection with death. The couple faced at least 20 years and at a maximum of life for their crimes.

Mendez had guilty for drug accusations, including conspiracy for the spread of narcotics that led to death.

Before the verdict was imposed, she apologized to the families of children who took part in the Divino Niño Day Care, which she was striking from a Bronx apartment in which the few narcotics kept and packed.

“I want everyone to be an accident,” she said through an interpreter. “I'm very sorry. I hope that one day I will be awarded.”

When the poisoning took place on September 15, 2023, Feliz-Dominici was taken to a nearby hospital where he died. Three other children who were exposed to the fentanyl during day care survived after doctors administered the overdose removal drug Narcan.

The police found a brick stone made of fentanyl, which was stored on playmats for the children, together with equipment, which were often used for packing medication and for packages fentanyl under a trapent door in a play area.

Both parents of Feliz-Dominici spoke in the conviction, whereby the child's mother said that it was not possible to award Mendez and the father the permanent pain and say: “We live, but we don't live.”

Rakoff quoted the emotions that he once felt when his older brother “was murdered in cold blood”, but he added that “the glory of the law is not to ignore feelings, but to bring them into a broader perspective”.

He said Mendez decided to provide the well -being of her own children and her husband about the well -being of families and children, the customers of their day care business.

In a presentation mandate, a defender made the proof that Mendez himself had suffered trauma as a child. The prosecutors demanded a long judgment and said that they ignored “clear warning signs” that the babies had become seriously ill and took no measures to demand a life -saving medical intervention.

“And after the tragedy, she logged in law enforcement and destroyed evidence to protect herself and her co -vibrators from their fault in the death of a baby and the poisoning of three others,” they wrote.

In a publication, the reigning US lawyer Matthew Podolsky said that Mendez had become young as young as 8 months old, “played in Harm's Art, when they slept, played and ate in a room in which more than 11 kilograms of fentanyl was hidden under their feet.”