{"id":81496,"date":"2023-10-06T09:48:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T13:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/in-nyc-dad-weeps-as-officials-announce-charges-in-day-care-drug-operation-that-left-his-toddler-dead-81496"},"modified":"2023-10-06T09:48:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T13:48:59","slug":"in-nyc-dad-weeps-as-officials-announce-charges-in-day-care-drug-operation-that-left-his-toddler-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/in-nyc-dad-weeps-as-officials-announce-charges-in-day-care-drug-operation-that-left-his-toddler-dead-81496","title":{"rendered":"In NYC, dad weeps as officials announce charges in day care drug operation that left his toddler dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Nicholas Dominici\u2019s dad said he had hoped to have a photo of his son\u2019s kindergarten graduation four years from now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But sadly what I have is a reminder of his death,&#8221; Otoniel Feliz said, weeping as he held up a photo of his son. The toddler died last month after he and three other young children were sickened by what officials said was exposure to fentanyl at their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/new-york-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bronx day care center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Feliz joined Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark and other officials as they announced the indictments on charges including murder and manslaughter of the center&#8217;s operator, her husband and the husband&#8217;s cousin in Dominici&#8217;s death. He was 22 months old and had spent only a few days at the Divino Ni\u00f1o day care center when he died on Sept. 15.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/new-york-city-daycare-children-possibly-consumer-fentanyl-1-dead-3-hospitalized-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>NEW YORK CITY DAYCARE CHILDREN POSSIBLY CONSUME FENTANYL, 1 DEAD, 3 HOSPITALIZED: REPORT<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clark said day care operator Grei Mendez, 36, her husband, Felix Herrera Garcia, 34, and Carlisto Brito, 41, were arraigned Thursday and ordered held without bail.<\/p>\n<p>Mendez and Brito were arrested after Dominici and three other children under Mendez&#8217;s care showed signs of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/topic\/opioid-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opioid exposure<\/a>. Herrera Garcia, who authorities say fled to Mexico, was arrested there and then extradited to New York.<\/p>\n<p>Dominici was pronounced dead at a hospital. The other three children, ranging in age from 8 months to 2 years old, were treated for what authorities said was fentanyl exposure.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said 2.2 pounds of fentanyl was found in a closet in the day care center and 13.23 pounds of fentanyl, heroin and other controlled substances were found under a trap door in the floor beneath a padded mat where children napped.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a catastrophe,&#8221; Clark said. &#8220;Our sorrow is matched only by the outrage because these babies were used as shields to protect a narcotics operation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/fentanyl-package-worth-7000-found-nyc-daycare-1-year-old-dies-apparent-overdose\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>FENTANYL PACKAGE WORTH $7,000 FOUND IN NYC DAYCARE AFTER 1-YEAR-OLD DIES FROM APPARENT OVERDOSE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clark said the children &#8220;are my children, they\u2019re our children and it\u2019s our responsibility to make sure we do all that we can to keep them safe and to protect them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Andres Aranda, an attorney for Mendez, said his client knew nothing of any fentanyl operation. &#8220;She is not guilty,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Messages seeking comment were left with attorneys for Brito and Herrera Garcia.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants and a fourth person also face <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal narcotics charges<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Feliz, Dominici&#8217;s father, spoke alternately in Spanish and English as he described how Mendez had earned his trust over the little boy&#8217;s brief time at the day care center.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We feel betrayed by that day care,&#8221; he said, &#8220;because they would send us photos, would send us text messages with everything that happened throughout the day. We trusted them because we saw it was a place that would keep us informed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Feliz thanked those working on the case, but said, &#8220;Everything that is done will not bring my son back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/nyc-dad-weeps-officials-announce-charges-day-care-drug-operation-left-s-toddler-dead\">Source &#8211; https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/nyc-dad-weeps-officials-announce-charges-day-care-drug-operation-left-s-toddler-dead <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Dominici\u2019s dad said he had hoped to have a photo of his son\u2019s kindergarten graduation four years from now. &#8220;But sadly what I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_2902945987_2902945987":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[16563],"tags":[],"stock_ticker":[],"class_list":["post-81496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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