Overview
- Grei Mendez, 38, and Felix Herrera-Garcia, 37, were sentenced Wednesday in state court after a jury convicted them of second-degree murder in November 2025.
- The case stems from a Sept. 15, 2023 exposure at a Bronx home daycare that hospitalized four children; 22-month-old Nicholas Dominici died.
- Prosecutors say the Divino Niño Daycare operated inside a Bronx apartment doubled as a fentanyl packaging and distribution site.
- District Attorney Darcel Clark said drugs were hidden under the floor where children napped and described the victims as being used as shields for the operation.
- Federal courts had already imposed 45-year narcotics sentences on both defendants related to the trafficking that led to the child’s death.