10-month-old found not breathing at Homestead daycare, rushed to hospital. It was too late
A 10-month-old infant who was found not breathing Monday afternoon at a Homestead daycare was rushed to an area hospital, where doctors failed in a desperate attempt to save his life.
A Miami-Dade Police spokesman said a worker at the center checking on the children during afternoon rounds — likely during nap time — noticed the 10-month-old was motionless. Attempts to revive the child didn’t work and staffers called Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, which airlifted the child to a hospital.
Police hadn’t identified the daycare by early evening, but said it was a facility near Krome Avenue and Fifth Street. WPLG Channel 10 reported it was Lincoln Marti Daycare, located at 510 N. Krome Ave. The television station also identified the child as Tayvon Tomlin and spoke to his grandfather, Sean Tomlin.
Tomlin said he saw his grandson Monday morning and everything appeared to be fine.
“That’s why I’m trying to get answers now,” he added. “Because he was energetic this morning when I played with him.”
Tayvon is the second infant to die at a private facility in Miami-Dade in the past week. Last Monday, 3-year-old Shalom Tauber was found dead inside a sweltering vehicle in the parking lot of a Jewish Community Center in Miami Gardens.
The Miami-Dade Medical Examiner called the death accidental and said the infant’s raised body temperature was fatal. Shalom was accidentally left in the parked vehicle as his father and four brothers and sisters scurried to class. The infant’s father, Menachem Mendel Tauber, 42, works at the school. Police haven’t charged anyone with a crime.
This story was originally published July 18, 2022 at 7:49 PM.
