[Faline]

A 13-month-old baby boy died this morning after swallowing pills from a prescription bottle he was given to play with as a rattle, police said.
Edwin Perocier Jr, of the Bronx, New York, was found unconscious in his crib by his parents at their home around 8am on Friday morning.
His 22-year-old mother, who has not been identified, called 911 and the baby was taken to Lincoln Hospital where he was pronounced dead.



Edwin’s parents told police they gave him the bottle to play with then took it away when they saw the lid had come off, reported the New York Post.
The couple said they noticed pills had fallen out of the bottle and were scattered around. The mother then called 911 for an ambulance.
His father - identified by the New York Post as 49-year-old Edwin Perocier - and the mother were being questioned by police on Friday.
A New York police spokesman confirmed to MailOnline on Friday afternoon that neither of his parents had been charged as of 2pm.
One local newspaper had reported the parents were charged with reckless endangerment, but the NYPD spokesman said this was incorrect.
The spokesman identified the baby but said his cause of death will be determined by a medical examiner and a police investigation continues.
The parents live in Longwood, a low-income part of the Bronx, on Southern Boulevard near the intersection with East 156th Street.
A Lincoln Hospital spokesman provided no further details, but the medical examiner's office said an autopsy will take place on Saturday.

[Flaka]

*sigh*

How dumb can you be to give your child a bottle of pills to play with?

FFS, you could even buy a fucking rattle at a dollar store

[ladypilgrim]

Oh man, that's really sad. They need to be charged, I mean how much more irresponsible can you be? *Reckless Endangerment*

[kellyhound]

Sources said both were heroin addicts using prescription drugs to be weaned from their addiction.

The parents, who also have a 4-year-old child, according to sources, had not been charged with any wrongdoing.

They admitted to investigators that they had given Edwin Jr. the bottle at some point Thursday night.

But they added they had quickly taken the makeshift rattle away once they realized its lid had come off and pills had scattered about.

It was unclear exactly how long the baby had the bottle or when the cap came off.

The parents said they collected the pills, put the cap back on the bottle and went to sleep and that when they woke up, they checked the crib and realized that their son was not moving.

Officers reported that when they arrived at the home, they found 2 bottles of prescription pills. One pill was found under the baby’s crib.

Records show that Perocier has a rap sheet with arrests for drug possession, assault, robbery and grand larceny dating back to 1985.

His most recent stint in the state pen ended in April 2007. That was for attempted criminal possession of a controlled sub-stance two years earlier.

Records indicate he was arrested after selling two ounces of cocaine to an undercover cop in Yonkers.

Before that, he spent 9 years in prison following a 1989 conviction for driving a stolen car while selling crack cocaine to an undercover detective.

Nuff said

[Mr.Goodbar]

Surely we can let Jay-Z off just this once

[Viking64]

Idiots.

[BloodyJew]

Great, now they'll improve on child proofing the pill bottles. i have enough trouble getting to my vicodin as is!

[Wolf]

How does it matter how quickly you took the bottle away if the pills had already spilled and the child HAS INGESTED THEM? You call poison control, not go back to sleep.

[collaredgirl65]

This is just another example of why people need to be tested and licensed before being allowed to have children.

[**butterflylove**]