Tot-Boy, 1, DEAD OF FENTANYL OVERDOSE AT LICENSED DAYCARE!
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 20 September 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
A manhunt is underway for the husband of a daycare owner charged in the death of a child in her care.
New York police responded to Divino Niño Daycare in the Bronx and found three children unconscious. Nicholas Dominici, just a year old, died from a fentanyl overdose. Two other children in the home-run daycare were revived after being administered Narcan.
A fourth child, picked up by a parent two hours before a chilling 911 call made by the owner, was taken to the hospital independently after the parent noticed the child was lethargic. That child also survived.
Police say they found a kilogram of fentanyl in a hallway closet at the daycare, stacked with the children’s play mats. They also found three kilo presses, used to package drugs. The 36-year-old owner of the daycare, and her tenant, her husband’s 41-year-old cousin Carlisto Acevedo Brito, are charged with 11 counts, including murder, manslaughter, and assault.
Joining Nancy Grace Today:
- Bernarda Villalona - NY Criminal Defense Attorney & Former Prosecutor, Villalona Law, PLLC.; @BernardaVillalona (FaceBook, Instagram, LinkdIn, TikTok, Threads), Twitter: @VillalonaLaw
- Dr. Michelle Joy- Forensic, Clinical, and Academic Psychiatrist; Author: “An Illustrated History of the Insanity Defense;” Twitter:@Westphillymorbidart
- Robert Crispin – Private Investigator, Former Federal Task Force Officer for United States Department of Justice, DEA and Miami Field Division; Former Homicide and Crimes Against Children Investigator; Facebook: Crispin Special Investigations, Inc. CrispinInvestigations.com, Facebook: Crispin Special Investigations, Inc.
- Anastasia Germain, Ed.D.- President of Childcare Professional Services LLC (early Childhood Consulting Services), Founder and Former Operator of a Licensed Childcare Center
- Dr. William Morrone – Toxicologist, Chief Medical Examiner, Bay County Michigan; Author: "American Narcan: Naloxone & Heroin-Fentanyl Associated Mortality"
- Dan Serafin – Anchor/Reporter, News 12 The Bronx/Brooklyn; IG- @dserafin12, Twitter- @DanSerafin
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| 0:00.0 | I remember the first time I took the twins to play school, as we called it, because I |
| 0:21.6 | couldn't bring myself to say daycare. |
| 0:24.7 | It was at a Lutheran Church about a half a mile from our house, and I was so distraught, |
| 0:33.3 | I would sit in the parking lot and work in my car, and occasionally would go up to the |
| 0:39.9 | window and stare in at the ladies taking care of the children. |
| 0:45.7 | Even when it would rain, I'd put a towel over my head and look in at them. |
| 0:50.7 | So they would know my eyes were on them. |
| 0:54.1 | Luckily, it was just two days a week, and they were there because I was not only working |
| 0:58.5 | two jobs, but trying to finish a book, I just couldn't do it all. |
| 1:04.3 | I'm just thinking about the mother and the father of little Nikki, just one year old. |
| 1:12.6 | He's dead. |
| 1:14.9 | He was taken to daycare, there were just a few tots in there, so he would get practically |
| 1:22.1 | undivided attention, and now, baby Nikki Dominici is dead. |
| 1:30.4 | Wait for it. |
| 1:33.4 | Because of an overdose, a fentanyl, a baby goes to daycare, so mom can work. |
| 1:43.7 | She didn't have the luxury of sitting in the car in the minivan, the parking lot, and |
| 1:47.7 | looking in whatever she felt like it. |
| 1:50.3 | She didn't have the luxury of getting her children out after three hours like I did. |
| 1:55.3 | Her child had to be there all day so she could work, and now her baby is dead from a fentanyl |
| 2:03.9 | overdose. |
| 2:06.9 | And what are we going to do about it? |
| 2:11.2 | I'm Nancy Grace. |
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