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.
The nurse allegedly told detectives she tested the water with her own
hand before placing Naomi in the tub. But she noticed pieces of skin
peeling off Naomi’s legs when she took her out.
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.
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