Tag: BABIES
Baby swallows sleeping pills during stay at posh hotel with parents
A baby swallowed up to 20 sleeping pills and went into convulsions while staying with her parents at a posh Times Square hotel, police sources said Tuesday.
The 1-year-old girl ingested between 15 and 20 sleeping pills at the Night Hotel on West 47th Street around 7 p.m. Monday, sources said.
Her 36-year-old mom was reading a book in the hotel room at the time and looked up to see the girl eating the pills, they said. The baby then began having a seizure, prompting the dad, 46, to call 911, sources said.
The parents are residents of Brazil.
The first officers on the scene rushed the baby to the hospital in their police car, a police source said.
“They wanted to get the child to the hospital as soon as they could,” a source said.
The baby was in stable condition on life support at Mt. Sinai Hospital on Tuesday, sources said. Police are investigating the incident, but foul play was not suspected.
Rooms at the hotel cost around $480 a night, including taxes and fees.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/04/16/baby-swallows-sleeping-pills-during-stay-at-posh-hotel-with-parents/
Nurse admits to fatally burning baby in scalding bath in plea deal
A Queens nurse admitted Wednesday to fatally burning a 23-month-old baby by dunking her in a scalding hot bath, getting a promise of just four years in prison for her plea.
Oluyemisi Adebayo, who was a 20-year licensed nurse practitioner, cruelly placed Naomi Mondesire in the bath at the child’s Rosedale home on April 21, 2015 and the baby succumbed to the burns days later.
The 58-year-old woman pleaded guilty to one count of attempted assault and is expected to receive the agreed upon sentence at her next court date on Sept. 24.
Adebayo — who was arrested in April 2015 as she was about to board a flight to Africa — will get credit for the three years she has been in jail since her arrest.
Judge Richard Buchter asked Adebayo, “Did you place the baby in hot water?” Adebayo responded, “yes.”
Adebayo, a Nigerian immigrant, could face deportation upon her release from prison.
She was originally charged with second-degree murder, which was dismissed as part of her plea deal, and she faced 25 years to life in prison if convicted at trial.
The child’s mother, Cynthia Mondesire, filed a negligence lawsuit in Queens in 2015 against Adebayo and the company she worked for, Harry’s Nursing registry. Adebayo settled with Mondesire but the multi-million dollar case against the company is still pending.
“The baby just melts in the bathtub, it’s tragic,” Mondesire’s lawyer, Eric Shaevitz, said adding, “It’s just a tragedy, an absolute tragedy that this woman has gotten away with murder. And especially horrifying, she had a record of child abuse and the company hadn’t vetted her at all.”
“She’s a monster,” Shaevitz said of Adebayo.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/09/05/nurse-admits-to-fatally-burning-baby-in-scalding-bath-in-plea-deal/
Mom accused of killing her infant through drugs in breast milk
A Philadelphia-area woman who described herself as a drug addict is being held on a homicide charge after she allegedly transmitted drugs to her 11-week-old baby through her breast milk, officials said.
Samantha Jones, 30, of New Britain Township, was charged Friday with criminal homicide in the April 2 death of the infant, named R.J. in court papers.
The Bucks County District Attorney’s office said the autopsy showed the baby died after being fed breast milk containing methadone, amphetamine and methamphetamine, Fox 29 Philadelphia reported.
According to the affidavit, Jones told police she had been prescribed methadone because of an addiction to painkillers, that she had taken it during her pregnancy and that she was taking it at the time of the baby’s death, the station added.
Police found the baby in cardiac arrest after responding to a 911 call. Jones’ mother called the cops and reportedly tried CPR.
The affidavit stated that Jones said she primarily had been breastfeeding the baby, but had switched to formula three days earlier, saying the infant wasn’t getting enough milk from breastfeeding, the station reported.
Jones said that on the morning the child died, the baby was crying at 3 a.m. and she tried to breastfeed him because she was too tired to go downstairs and prepare a bottle of formula, Fox 29 added citing investigators.
She also said, according to the station, that she fed the infant formula at 6 a.m., fell asleep and then woke up to find her son pale, with bloody mucus coming from his nose.
Jones was held in lieu of $3 million cash bail.
Her 2-year-old son is in the custody of his father, the station reported.
The D.A.’s office said in a news release that Jones’ defense attorney argued for minimal bail saying R.J.’s death was not intentional.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/07/15/mom-accused-of-killing-her-infant-through-drugs-in-breast-milk/
Mom accused of drowning 10-day-old son in bath
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Authorities say an upstate New York woman has been charged with second-degree murder for the bathtub drowning of her 10-day-old son.
Rochester police say officers responded Monday afternoon to a report of an unresponsive child at a home and found a baby in a bathtub.
Officials say the child, named Jeremiah, was taken to Rochester General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Mitchell was arraigned on the murder charge Tuesday morning in Rochester City Court. She pleaded not guilty and was ordered held in jail without bail. The name of the public defender assigned to her case wasn’t available.
Police say Mitchell also has a 7-year-old child, who’s currently in the care of a relative.
via: http://nypost.com/2017/11/14/mom-accused-of-drowning-10-month-old-son-in-bath/
FL Naval nurses booted over disturbing pics, posts of ‘mini Satan’ newborns
Nurses at a naval hospital in Florida have been booted from their posts after sick photos went viral of them rudely posing with newborn babies and referring to the tots as “mini Satans.”
One of the pics posted to Snapchat shows Allyson Thompson, a corpsman at Naval Hospital Jacksonville, flipping the bird to a baby who’s wrapped in a blanket, along with the caption, “How I currently feel about these mini Satans,” according to Action News Jacksonville.
In another photo, Thompson grins as she holds a baby up by its arms. The pic was shared by a woman who identified the employee as a “navy nurse” who made the newborn dance to rap music, First Coast News reported.
The rogue staffers have been “removed from patient care,” the hospital said in a statement.
“We are aware of a video/photo posted online. It’s outrageous, unacceptable, incredibly unprofessional, and cannot be tolerated,” the hospital said. “We have identified the staff members involved. They have been removed from patient care and they will be handled by the legal system and military justice. We’re in the process of notifying the patient’s parents.”
Thompson and Barrett could not immediately be reached.
via: http://nypost.com/2017/09/19/naval-nurses-booted-over-disturbing-pics-posts-of-mini-satan-newborns/
Woman arrested for switching formula for flour in twisted refund scam
TUCSON, Ariz. — A Tucson woman is accused of substituting flour for infant formula in containers returned to several local stores for refunds, and police have warned the public to check formula containers’ seals for tampering.
One child got sick from ingesting tampered formula but is in good condition after being treated at a hospital and released May 5, police said late Thursday.
Police Chief Chris Magnus held an unusual nighttime news conference to disclose the arrest and to warn the public. “We’re concerned about this and wanted to get the information out as quickly as possible to avoid any other children from becoming sick,” Magnus said.
Police said the alleged scheme apparently was motivated by money and apparently took place over at least several days and possibly for up to two months. The formula was either purchased or stolen, police said.
Dr. Francisco Garcia, chief medical officer for Pima County, said tests are being conducted to determine whether other substances were put in formula containers along with flour, such as something to make it more palatable.
Police said Jennifer LaPlante, 30, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of fraudulent schemes and artifices and child endangerment.
LaPlante remained jailed Friday. It wasn’t immediately known whether she has an attorney who could comment on the allegations.
Police listed two Fry’s grocery stores and two Wal-Mart stores, all on Tucson’s eastside, that are linked to the incident.
Officials at Arkansas-based Wal-Mart said they don’t restock baby formula and are “deeply disturbed” by the Tucson incident.
“Our customers deserve safe, quality foods, and we have policies in place to help ensure that returned baby formula is not put back on our shelves,” Wal-Mart spokesman Ragan Dickens said in a statement.
A police department spokesman, Sgt. Pete Dugan, said Friday he wasn’t aware of additional reports of tampered formula.
However, detectives remained “smack-dab in the middle of the investigation,” Dugan said. “They need to find out if there’s others involved. They need to find out if there’s other stores involved.”
Officials advised recent purchasers of infant formula from Tucson businesses to check seals on containers and to see whether the formula smelled normal.
Parents shouldn’t feed infants with any formula if there’s any question of possible tampering, Garcia said. “Those seals should be intact,” he said.
via: http://nypost.com/2017/05/13/woman-arrested-for-switching-formula-for-flour-in-twisted-refund-scam/
Parents caught in disturbing tug-of-war fight with baby
Two feuding parents were caught playing tug-of-war with their baby — and the pair are now behind bars after the shocking footage spread online.
Cops collared Britnie Hass and Elias Holt after the pair were caught tussling over their 11-month-old son in the parking lot of a Utah motel last week, a local Fox affiliate reports.
The cellphone video shows the baby boy hanging loosely on Hass’s side as she fights off Holt outside a La Quinta in Orem, and the tot is then tossed around as a third family member tries to intervene.
“When I was saying to him, ‘Let me take the baby inside’, that’s when she grabs the baby out of his arms so violently,” Melina Ylinen, the third woman and Holt’s aunt, told Fox 13.
“The baby was really low on her hip, and he was bowing backwards, and I was afraid his back was going to snap.”
“She has the baby in one arm and she starts punching my nephew, and at the point the baby is falling out of her arms. She has him in a headlock and his head is the only thing keeping him from falling on the ground.”
Hass also turned on Yllinen as she tried to rescue the baby.
“I was hit seven or eight times and she tried to get her fingers in my eye sockets to pull my eyes out,” she told ABC4 Utah.
Police eventually arrived and took the family to a relative’s house. They later arrested Hass for child abuse, and Holt over a previous warrant.
They say the footage will help them make their case.
“We are going to use the video as evidence in our case as to why we filed the appropriate charges,” Orem Police Lt. Craig Martinez told ABC4.
Cops say the baby wasn’t injured in the fight, and is now staying with another family member.