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Day care worker accused of suffocating ‘fussy' infant who wouldn't stop crying
Cox Media via WPXI ^ | September 9, 2019 | Crystal Bonvillian

Posted on 09/09/2019 9:39:42 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

BEAR, Del. - A Delaware day care worker has been charged with murder after police say she covered the nose and mouth of a 4-month-old baby with her hand until the infant died.

Dejoynay Ferguson, 19, of New Castle, has been booked on one count of first-degree murder.

Delaware State Police officials said in a news release that state troopers and paramedics were called around 10:35 a.m. Thursday to Little People Child Development Center in Bear, where they found the infant girl unresponsive. She was rushed to Christiana Hospital in Newark, where she was pronounced dead.

Ferguson, who was the assigned caregiver for the girl, worked in the Infant Room at the day care. Troopers said investigators with the state police's homicide unit learned that Ferguson put her hands over the baby's mouth and nose and restricted her breathing until the girl became unresponsive.

"Once becoming unresponsive, the victim was placed back into a crib by Ferguson," troopers said in the news release. "After approximately 20 minutes, Ferguson advised the owner of the facility that the victim was unresponsive, at which time a call was made to 911."

A probable cause affidavit obtained by NBC Philadelphia states that surveillance video at the day care center captured the infant's death in full. The video shows Ferguson pick the baby up from the floor by her shirt and place her on a changing table.

(Excerpt) Read more at wpxi.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: abortion; bear; daycare; dejoynayferguson; delaware; infant; infanticide; medicareforall; newcastle; obamacare
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1 posted on 09/09/2019 9:39:42 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

A 4 Month-old in daycare?

What the hell is wrong with people?


2 posted on 09/09/2019 9:41:36 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The proper penalty for this deed, after conviction of course, is to be smothered.


3 posted on 09/09/2019 9:42:21 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: dfwgator

My thought too.


4 posted on 09/09/2019 9:42:56 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: dfwgator

Good question.


5 posted on 09/09/2019 9:43:42 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

How incredibly tragic. But this is one of the consequences of two income families which is now the status quo for most Americans unfortunately. I think it is time to re-think daycare centers in general. A friend of mine nearly lost her baby when she noticed after picking the child up from a highly recommended day care facility , that her daughter was lethargic and becoming non responsive. It turned out the baby had ingested an oxycotin pill. Now it was never clear if the child was deliberately given a pill to quiet her during the day or more likely it fell out of the bag of a staff member and she ate it off the floor, but the result was the same. She nearly died.


6 posted on 09/09/2019 9:45:19 AM PDT by sueuprising (The best of it is, God is with us-John Wesley)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Dejoynay??


7 posted on 09/09/2019 9:46:04 AM PDT by Mark17 (Once saved, always saved. I do not care if some do not like that. It will NEVER be my problem)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Hmmm. I seem to recall barnie slanders calling for silencing babies last week. Trigger? I’d sure be pushing that one if it were me. I mean if the walmart perp in ElPaso is blamed on PDJT............ Just sayin’.


8 posted on 09/09/2019 9:46:50 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Rurudyne

If Deleware doesn’t allow for smothering, I’d settle for whatever means of execution they do allow.

That said, I think that the day care owners likely carry some responsibility as well. The training looks to have lacked something, and one would think that a second person would be checking in every half hour or so—I bet the kid was a little out of control for at least a bit before the perp took things into her own hands.


9 posted on 09/09/2019 9:47:49 AM PDT by Hieronymus ("I shall drink--to the Pope, if you please,-still, to Conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.")
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To: Mark17

I looked. You’re right.

In her defense she was probably trying to listen to a Bernie Sanders presser.


10 posted on 09/09/2019 9:48:24 AM PDT by 43north (Its hard to stop a man when he knows he's right and he keeps coming.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

they should be teaching these things in schools, apparently common sense is lacking in many people these days no personal responsibility is being taught and condoned....also anyone around children shout be taught you cannot shake a baby it can kill them..


11 posted on 09/09/2019 9:51:55 AM PDT by rolling_stone (no justice no peace)
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To: Mark17

Yeah, I know. And I had to click anyway. What surprised me was the photo of the daycare facility. It looks very upscale and fairly new. Dejoynay looks to to heading to the hoosegow for beaucoup moons because the entire act of murder was caught by one of the facility’s cameras.


12 posted on 09/09/2019 9:54:50 AM PDT by VietVet876
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Another millstone candidate.


13 posted on 09/09/2019 9:54:57 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

No surprises, as per the link:

https://nypost.com/2019/09/08/daycare-worker-charged-with-murder-for-suffocating-crying-baby/


14 posted on 09/09/2019 9:57:39 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( The line that separates satire and Democrat Stupid has vanished. (thanks to jonascord)!)
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To: Hieronymus

You can’t train away a heart that will murder the helpless. You may not even be able to detect it.

... well, aside from asking for opinions about abortion.


15 posted on 09/09/2019 10:04:14 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: rktman

Hmmm. I seem to recall barnie slanders calling for silencing babies last week. Trigger? I’d sure be pushing that one if it were me.

‘Keep that down’: Crying baby irritates Bernie Sanders

https://youtu.be/qqlTGWdrHoE


16 posted on 09/09/2019 10:11:03 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( The line that separates satire and Democrat Stupid has vanished. (thanks to jonascord)!)
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17 posted on 09/09/2019 10:12:37 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

He’s repulsive.


18 posted on 09/09/2019 10:14:42 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: VietVet876

I think she forgot about the surveillance cameras running.

She didn’t want her DNA around the baby’s mouth or nose, hence the gloves.

I truly feel sorry for both the child’s parents who have lost so much as well as the Day Care facility because it seems as if they’ve done all they could.

Wonder if that state has the Death Penalty and how long she’ll live while on Death Row, if they have it.


19 posted on 09/09/2019 10:18:31 AM PDT by Notthereyet (NotThereYet)
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To: Rurudyne

The proper penalty for this deed, after conviction of course, is to be smothered.


I vote for electric chair.


20 posted on 09/09/2019 10:31:06 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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