SLAY RAP IN TOT DRUG O.D.
A Long Island couple has been indicted on manslaughter charges after their toddler allegedly overdosed on a drug stash, as the local prosecutor called for new laws to prevent similar tragedies.
Wilkens Adonis and Daryllee Leibrock, both 38, had already faced a litany of drug and weapons charges after the Jan. 3 death of Joseph Adonis, 14 months, who was killed by a lethal cocktail of cocaine, fentanyl and heroin.
But Monday, Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney announced a superseding indictment that formally charged the Holbrook couple in the child’s death.
“How many more innocent children must die for change to be enacted?” Tierney asked in a statement. “It is well past the time for New York state legislators to wake up, put politics aside and pass common sense legislation related to fentanyl.”
Adonis and Leibrock were arraigned Monday on the new charges, including second-degree manslaughter, Tierney said.
Acting Supreme Court Justice Philip Goglas ordered them both held on $500,000 cash bail, $1 million bond or $5 million partially secured bond, the DA’s statement said.
Their next court date is May 14.
The couple allegedly had a slew of drugs and a cache of weapons inside their central Long Island home, which cops raided two days after New Year’s after a report of an unresponsive child inside one of the bedrooms.
Authorities rushed the little boy to Stony Brook University Hospital, but he didn’t survive.
Deadly mixture
In the end, cops said they found more than an eighth of an ounce of a heroin and fentanyl mixture, an eighth of an ounce of cocaine, alprazolam, methadone, drug packaging materials, two digital scales, an electronic stun gun, a loaded shotgun and a rifle.
Everything was lying in the open, easily accessible to the boy and his 11-yearold sibling, investigators said. A DNA swab taken from one of the drug packages showed traces of the toddler’s DNA, authorities added.
“Based on the results of the autopsy, the drugs and weapons allegedly found in the defendants’ apartment, and the location of those items, the defendants are now alleged to have recklessly caused the death of their son, Joseph Adonis,” the statement said.
At the time of their arrest, both parents had failure-to-appear warrants after missing court dates for misdemeanor drug charges, Tierney said.
Leibrock also faced criminal contempt charges, as she violated a restraining order that was supposed to bar her from being around either child.
But Tierney added that it was only the addition of the manslaughter charge that let prosecutors ask for bail in this case.