Wilkens Adonis and Daryllee Leibrock were charged as suspects of causing the death of their 14-month-old baby by overdose on Long Island (NY).
The boy Joseph Adonis was found unconscious inside a home in Holbrook on January 3. He was taken to Stony Brook University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, he reported. ABC News.
The Suffolk District Attorney explained that toxicological tests revealed that the deceased He had cocaine, fentanyl and morphine in his system. and that drugs were found in the baby’s room.
Suffolk County police said an 11-year-old boy, a possible brother of the baby, also lives in that home. Authorities also found a loaded shotgun, a rifle and a stun gun that were allegedly unsecured and easily accessible to the children.
The parents were arraigned Thursday the 25th on multiple charges including endangering the welfare of a minor, criminal possession of a controlled substance and failure to store weapons safely. All charges are mere accusations and those charged are presumed innocent until proven guilty in court.
“Here we are investigating what appears to be an overdose of a baby, and again, this is what we knew was going to happen given the deadly nature of these drugs, and it will continue to happen unless we act,” commented the Suffolk district attorney. , Ray Tierney.
Tierney is Calling on the New York State Legislature and Governor Kathy Hochul to provide more help to address the fentanyl overdose crisis. He says there were 399 overdose deaths in Suffolk County alone in 2022.
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that can be used to mix drugs such as cocaine or heroin to produce an effect up to 50 times stronger. “It is the most important threat to our public health and our public safety,” The DEA special agent in New York, Frank Tarentino, stood out in 2023. “It’s poison…. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Every day we have more seizures. In New York City there is a drug overdose every three hours. At the national level it is every five minutes, 295 a day.”
The DEA is part of a task force with the NYPD and other agencies seeking to raid drug factories, especially after September the boy Nicholas Dominici died from a fatal overdose in his daycare in the Bronx, where he was exposed to fentanyl. That was not the first baby death in 2023 that NYPD linked to narcotics use.
The growing fentanyl supply has exacerbated the drug epidemic in New York City: the deadly opioid is detected in the 80% of overdose deathsaccording to the Department of Health (DOH).
2024-01-26 14:29:00
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