The husband of the owner of a New York daycare center, in which a one-year-old child died and three others were poisoned by fentanyl clandestinely stored in these facilities, we learned. sentenced to 45 years in prison and five years of supervised release in the Southern District Court of New York.
The court indicates in a statement that, at least since October 2022, García and other people They conspired to distribute drugs from a daycare in the Bronx, where they kept more than 11 kilograms of fentanyl and heroin in trapdoors under the tiles of the playroom, “where the children ate, slept and played daily.”
This led to mid-September 2023 one child died and three others – aged 8 months to 2 years – were hospitalized and treated with Narcan, a drug used to reverse overdoses, after being exposed to fentanyl.
The now convicted 35-year-old pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute drugs, one count of drug possession resulting in the boy’s death and also one count of possession resulting in injury serious to the three other children.
The owner of the nursery school and her cousin, also involved in the affair, each face eleven charges.ranging from murder and manslaughter to serious injury and drug possession.
“This case demonstrates the deadly scope and scale of the fentanyl epidemic and the profound harm it inflicts on the lives of Americans, including those of the most vulnerable,” said U.S. Attorney Damian Williams.
The death of the little boy, named Nicholas Dominici, shocked New York City, which like the rest of the United States is experiencing a fentanyl epidemic that leaves the country every year. more deaths than the total number of American soldiers killed in the Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq wars combined. In 2023, some 107,500 people died for overdoses linked to fentanyl and other synthetic opioids, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
