Tot-slay dad too out of it to talk: cops

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS The father accused of strapping his daughter in a car that was set on fire in Queens has yet to be questioned about his role in the girl’s death because he was badly burned in the incident and medically sedated, sources said Tuesday. Martin Pereira, 39, remained in in serious but stable condition two days after his 3-year-old daughter was burned alive in the backseat of a car on a Springfield Gardens street, a tragic victim of what cops and relatives said was an ugly custody fight between her parents.

Little Zoey Pereira’s mother, Cherone Coleman, told the Daily News the vengeful dad taunted her with a warning about his evil plans before the torturous girl’s murder.

“You’ll never see your daughter again,” Pereira said, according to the mother.

But cops have not charged Pereira or even interviewed him because doctors at Manhattan’s New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell sedated him.

The fire also singed Pereira’s clothes, according to witnesses, who saw the father run away from the vehicle before dousing the flames on his body in the water at nearby Baisley Pond Park,

Cops found Pereira in the park, and took him to the hospital.

Meanwhile, first responders pulled Zoey from the car and rushed her to Jamaica Hospital, but she could not be saved.

The car doors had been chained shut from the inside, but the door handles securing the chains melted, enabling rescuers to get inside.

First responders found two gasoline canisters in the car, and a propane tank in the trunk, sources said.