A Nigerian Licensed nurse practitioner based in Queens, New York, United States, has been arrested in the scalding death of a disabled toddler after she submerged her in 130-degree bath water for 30 seconds.
Authorities said the 54 year old nurse practitioner who was hired a day before the incident was taking care of 23-month-old Naomi Mondesire on April 21st when she prepared her for a bath.
Daily Mail reports that, Oluyemisi Adebayo, 54
was arrested on Wednesday at around 7 a.m in JFK Airport just as she was
about to flee the country and board a flight back home to Nigeria.
The
nurse reportedly told detectives that she tested the water with her own
hand before placing Naomi in the tub, and subsequently noticed Naomi’s
skin peeling off after taking her out from the bath.
Doctors
however told police that Adebayo’s description of how the baby was
burned was inconsistent with the nature of her injuries.
Authorities
believe that Naomi was submerged up to her waist in 130-degree water
for 30 seconds and the little girl died from thermal injuries to 50 per
cent of her body on Monday, three days after doctors at Nassau
University Medical Center carried out a surgery on her.
Naomi's
mother, 32-year-old Cynthia Mondesire, said she had had two
miscarriages before giving birth to Naomi - her only surviving child,
prematurely at 25 weeks.
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.
Adebayo who initially claimed she didn't know how Naomi got scalded, later admitted it was a mistake.
source:Dailymail
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