A 1-year-old girl apparently drowned in the pool of a Bronx day care while her caretaker was preoccupied with cooking, cops and law enforcement sources said.
Police found the tot unconscious and unresponsive in the pool outside the home-run day care on Story Avenue near Olmstead Avenue in Castle Hill when they responded to a 911 call around 12:50 p.m. Friday, according to authorities and sources.
The baby was in the care of a 47-year-old woman who had been cooking for about 20 minutes when she realized she hadn’t seen the little girl, the sources said.
The child was unconscious and unresponsive when officers arrived, and she was taken to Montefiore Einstein Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, cops said.
No criminality was immediately suspected in the death of the girl, who has not been officially identified by police.
The city medical examiner’s office will determine her official cause of death.
A small memorial was set up outside the day care center on Monday, with flowers of all kinds, candles and teddy bears.
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