1-Year-Old Girl Dies Inside Of Her Play Pen, Mom Heartbroken To See What Killed Her Daughter
By Dreamer
A mom residing in Staten Island, New York, put her baby girl inside of her Pack n’ Play crib so she can sleep for the night. However, as she went to take her baby out of her crib the next morning, she saw that her baby was not moving. Unfortunately, when paramedics got to the home, the baby was declared dead, and now her mother is devastated to find out what killed her child and it came from her carpet.
Bianca Abdul (left), a Pack ‘n Play (right) (Photo Credit: Facebook via NYPost, Mitch Bennett/Flickr)
Leila Wade went to grab her 1-year-old daughter, Bianca Abdul, from her Pack ‘n Play crib, when she realized that something was not right. When she picked up her baby, the baby girl was not moving and that's when she dialed 911. Once paramedics got there they gave the mom the heart shattering news that her daughter passed away.
When cops questioned Leila, she confessed that she remembers Bianca banging her head on the coffee table a couple days before she passed but said that she “seemed fine,” according to Inside Edition. However, when she was questioned again, the mother recalled another possibility that could have led to her daughter’s death and admitted to investigators that she feared her daughter had gotten a hold of one of her old prescription pills. Unfortunately, the medical examiner would later confirm Leila’s greatest fear – her daughter had died because of what the mother suspect the child had stumbled upon — a drug known as Embeda.
Bianca had died as a result of “acute intoxication caused by the combined effects of morphine and diazepam, an anti-anxiety medication similar to Valium,” according to SI Live. Her mother had been prescribed the drug a year prior to the child’s death for a head injury.
“That amount for a 15-pound baby, you’re going to sleep,” Leila said. “You’re going to sleep with no pain… there’s no crying out, it’s an immediate,” she tried to explain, struggling through tears. She believes that her daughter had found an old pill in the carpet, picked it up, and put it in her mouth, eating it – just like most children her age do with anything found on the floor.
The morning she found her daughter haunts her – as it would any parent. “I picked her up and I knew she was dead,” said Leila. “I looked in her eyes and I tried to do CPR…but in her eyes I knew that she was dead and cold.” However, everything may not be as it seems.
Before the death of Bianca, the home had been investigated by the Administration for Children’s Services on allegations of drug use, violence, and neglect. Bianca’s death has recently been declared a homicide. However, the Richmond County District Attorney’s Office is uncertain whether charges will be filed in connection with the findings, considering the incident is still an active investigation.
“We have a few cases under investigation,” Staten Island District Attorney Michael McMahon said in a statement. “We’ve had cases involving death and we have cases where children have survived. There have been a handful of cases, enough that we have been very alarmed by this and see this as another terrible manifestation of the crisis that we face here on Staten Island. It’s an all-out battle.”
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