Overview

• The NYPD, New York City Department of Health and New York State Office of Children and Family Services have opened formal probes into the 20-month-old’s death with no criminality suspected so far.
• The city medical examiner’s office is awaiting its findings to establish an official cause of death after the toddler was found in an above-ground pool.
• State records indicate the licensed home daycare passed four inspections in the past year without violations, though a 2023 unannounced visit cited improper supervision that was promptly corrected.
• Parents Ima and Ifiok Wilson accuse the daycare operator of neglect and say their repeated requests for information have gone unanswered.
• Childcare advocates and regulators are reexamining enforcement gaps in small, in-home facilities following the tragedy due to limited real-time oversight.