New York(Washington Insider Magazine) -After seven months of investigation, the death of a Latino baby was declared a homicide due to an overdose of fentanyl at the home of a relative in Staten Island (NYC).
Death of Baby Ermias Taylor Santiago
After seven months of investigation, the death of baby Ermias Taylor Santiago has been declared a homicide due to a drug overdose, the New York Police reported today.
The 2-year-old baby was found unconscious at his home on Hillside Avenue, Staten Island County, on May 20 at around 11:33 a.m. m., according to NYPD. First responders transported the boy to Staten Island University North Campus Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Authorities told Pix11 that the toddler died of a fentanyl overdose at a relative’s home. The investigation is ongoing. Everyone who was in contact with the boy is being questioned, but no arrests have been announced.
This month a coroner’s report determined that a 2-year-old girl died of a methadone overdose at a shelter in Harlem (NYC). It was also announced that a 3-year-old baby died at her foster home in the Bronx due to acute amphetamine poisoning.
In a similar case, a 23-year-old was charged this week with killing his girlfriend’s baby, at the close of a six-month-long FBI and police investigation in New York’s Orange County.
Several children died in the last months of 2021 in NYC victims of alleged abuse in their homes. Other cases have also been reported in 2022.
In April, Daniel Auster, son of famed novelist Paul Auster, died in Brooklyn days after being charged in the overdose death of his baby.
Earlier this month a man was charged in the violent death of his 23-month-old daughter, who allegedly died after receiving a blow to the head in Brooklyn.
A teenager with cerebral palsy was also found burned to death inside his Brooklyn home and the death was ruled a homicide by police. And a former NYPD cop was sentenced to 25 years for the abusive death of his autistic son on Long Island.
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This article is authored by EI Diario.
