Hmmm.....According to a report by Mail Online,
54 year old nurse practitioner Oluyemisi Adebayo (pictured left) has
been arrested and charged in the killing of a disabled toddler who was
submerged in scalding bath
water for about 30 second. Adebayo was arrested on Wednesday April 28th
in Queens, New York just as she was about to board a flight to Nigeria,
Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said.
Authorities say Adebayo was taking care of 23-month-old Naomi Mondesire on April 21 when she prepared her for a bath.
Doctors
told police Adebayo's account of how the baby was burned was
inconsistent with the nature of her injuries, according to a criminal
complaint.
Police
say Naomi was submerged up to her waist in 130-degree water for 30
seconds. The little girl died from thermal injuries to 50 per cent of
her body Monday, three days after doctors at Nassau University Medical
Center performed surgery on her.
Naomi's
grandmother was heartbroken and furious at the woman she had hired to
look after the little girl just one day before she was scalded.
Gardite
Mondesire, 54, said she returned to her apartment on Memphis Avenue in
the Rosedale section of Queens at around 7.25pm Tuesday to find her
tenant running around the home picking up pieces of her granddaughter's
skin.
When she got Adebayo on the phone, the nurse allegedly claimed she didn't know how Naomi got scalded.
'She
said "It’s bad. I did something bad. The baby got burned,”' Mondesire
told the New York Daily News. 'But she said she didn’t know how.'
Corey Brock, Naomi's father, challenged Adebayo's claims that she had tested the water before placing his daughter in the tub.
Naomi's mother, 32-year-old Cynthia Mondesire
She claimed it was a mistake. She claimed she checked the water. It’s impossible,’ Brock told CBS News. ‘If she had checked the water, she would have been burnt also.’
Brock also pointed out that had the nurse been innocent, she would not have tried to flee the country Wednesday night.
The
54-year-old was detained at John F. Kennedy International Airport at
around 7am while trying to board a flight to Nigeria via London.
Adebayo,
who according to her LinkedIn page has been a licensed nurse
practitioner for more than 16 years, could face up to 25 years to life
in convicted.
‘The
defendant had been trained to heal and save lives – which she is
accused of failing to fulfill,’ DA Brown said in a press release. ‘The
tiny victim suffered extraordinarily painful injuries for several days
before she died. This is a terribly sad and tragic case that could have
been prevented.’
Naomi's
mother, 32-year-old Cynthia Mondesire, said she had had two
miscarriages before giving birth to Naomi - her only surviving child.
‘With everything that she’s gone through, she was a fighter,’ Ms Mondesire told the News. ‘She was just starting to thrive.’
Before
Naomi passed away Monday, her grandmother said she told the dying girl
she was sorry and the child squeezed her finger in response. She will be
laid to rest Saturday. Culled from UK Daily Mail
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