Owner of NYC day care where toddler fatally ingested fentanyl pleads guilty to federal charges

NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who owned a New York City day care center where a toddler died after ingesting fentanyl has pleaded guilty to federal drug charges. The plea came more than a year after the September 2023 death of 22-month-old Nicholas Dominici. Grei Mendez entered the guilty plea in Manhattan on Tuesday to charges including conspiracy to distribute narcotics resulting in death. Her husband, Felix Herrera-Garcia, was sentenced earlier this month to 45 years in prison after pleading guilty to drug charges and causing bodily harm. Thirty-seven-year-old Mendez cried briefly and said she will be haunted by what happened.