Ma faces slay charge in death of tot who gulped pills

A STATEN Island mom whose baby girl took a fatal dose of painkillers now faces manslaughter charges, police said Monday.

Leila Wade, 39, was busted Monday night, accused of letting her 1-year-old daughter, Bianca Abdul, get her hands on one of her prescribed painkillers last year. Bianca’s family found the little girl lifeless in her playpen on March 20 at her Moreland St. apartment in Midland Beach.

When cops arrived, they found the girl’s body temperature was 70 degrees and she had signs of rigor mortis, according to police sources.

In October, the city medical examiner’s office ruled Bianca’s death a homicide, concluding she overdosed on morphine and diazepam.

Wade (photo) faces manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, reckless endangerment and child endangerment charges.

“I am glad justice has finally been served. I hope they throw the book at her,” Bianca’s father, Joseph Abdul, told the Daily News. “Bianca, you will always be missed. Daddy loves you.”

Abdul did not live with Bianca and Wade, who had an order of protection against him when the baby died.

“So hard and stressful,” he said. “I cry every week still. I daydream of stuff I wish I could be doing with Bianca.”