13MO Appeared To Be Grinding Their Teeth & Struggling To Breathe

[Sugar Cookie]

A woman is facing charges after a 13-month-old overdosed on cocaine and possibly fentanyl Sunday evening in her downtown West Palm Beach, police records show.

Authorities arrested 33-year-old Nicole Ciufi early Monday, hours after an unresponsive 13-month-old in her care was taken to St. Mary’s Medical Center. Ciufi faces a child-neglect charge.

The St. Mary’s staff used Narcan to revive the toddler, who immediately improved after a dose of the treatment used to reverse the effects of a narcotic overdose.

A doctor told police that tests showed cocaine in the 1-year-old’s system, but the toddler’s symptoms indicated something else likely was ingested as well. The toddler’s quick improvement after receiving Narcan indicated the toddler recently ingested narcotics.

The doctor suspected fentanyl, although results of tests to check whether the potent pain killer was in the 1-year-old’s system were not immediately available.

Ciufi, whose relationship to the toddler is redacted from police records, claimed not to know how drugs would have ended up in the young child’s system and said she figured if she were tested for drugs, the results would be negative.

Police records do not indicate if she was tested.

Ciufi told police she had been alone for hours with the toddler in her West Palm Beach apartment. She fed the toddler pizza then they laid down together in her bed.

That evening she noticed the toddler appeared to be grinding the toddler’s teeth and struggling to breathe. At about 8 p.m. she took the toddler down to the apartment building’s front desk to call for an ambulance because her phone was broken, she said.

Police records indicate the caller told a dispatcher the toddler had “labored breathing” and a “possible obstructed airway.” When authorities arrived the young child was unresponsive. Surveillance-camera footage from the lobby shows the 1-year-old appear limp and “completely unresponsive,” records state.

Toddler ODs in West Palm apartment; woman arrested

The 13-month-old overdosed on cocaine and possibly fentanyl, a doctor told West Palm Beach police.

www.palmbeachpost.com

Ciufi was released from jail on $1,000 bond.

https://www.avvo.com/attorneys/33458-fl-nicole-ciufi-4668653.html#about

 

[TexasDawg]

If you're going to be a dumb Mutha-fukan junkie why don't you just stop having kids and place the ones you have up for adoption!

 

[Keepalowprofile]

If you're going to be a dumb Mutha-fukan junkie why don't you just stop having kids and place the ones you have up for adoption!

This!


But they need those kids to pay the bills.

 

[Sejanus]

If her eyes were any closer together she could qualify for being a cyclops

 

[Old Man Metal]

Jacked and jawin' at 13 months? He'll be running hos by two and shot dead in a drive-by before five.

 

[TexasDawg]

This!


But they need those kids to pay the bills.

I forgot

 

[hzlb]

If you're going to be a dumb Mutha-fukan junkie why don't you just stop having kids and place the ones you have up for adoption!

well said ! and then some !!

 

[Sevens My Charm]

If you're going to be a dumb Mutha-fukan junkie why don't you just stop having kids and place the ones you have up for adoption!

At least provide sufficient and safe care for them until you get your shit together..

 

[TexasDawg]

At least provide sufficient and safe care for them until you get your shit together..

Junkies don't get it together until jail time!

 

[Sevens My Charm]

Junkies don't get it together until jail time!

@TexasDawg
Funny I did.. Went on to obtain a BSN.. never relapsed and I try hard to be the best mom and grandmother ever.. And no I have never been to jail.. Life and addiction are not black and white.. Anyone who knows me here will tell you I am among a small percentage of success stories but we do exist..

 

[Sugar Cookie]

The first priority is keeping the baby safe.

This could be the woman's wake up call to get her life together.

@Fives My Charm