{"id":69044,"date":"2025-12-12T18:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T18:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/69044\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T18:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T18:32:07","slug":"lifeless-newborn-exposed-to-fentanyl-before-being-dumped-at-nyc-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/69044\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifeless newborn exposed to fentanyl before being dumped at NYC hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lifeless day-old\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/11\/us-news\/lifeless-newborn-dropped-off-at-nyc-hospital-by-mom-died-of-homicide-medical-examiner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">baby dropped off at a Manhattan hospital<\/a>\u00a0by his mother last year was exposed to fentanyl and stuffed in a plastic bag, the city medical examiner\u2019s office revealed Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The tragic newborn \u2014 known only as \u201cJohn Doe\u201d Santiago-Sanchez \u2014 died of exposure to the potent drug and his placement in the plastic bag, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The baby boy was unconscious and unresponsive when he was found at New York-Presbyterian\/ Columbia University Irving Medical Center Nov. 21, 2024, police said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50367107;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"887\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/view-newyork-presbyterian-weill-cornell-117171228_b5fce9.jpg\" alt=\"The newborn boy, known only as \u201cJohn Doe\u201d Santiago-Sanchez, died Nov. 21, 2024, after arriving unconscious and unresponsive at New York-Presbyterian\/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, police said.&#10;&#10;\" class=\"wp-image-37913444\"  \/>The newborn boy, known only as \u201cJohn Doe\u201d Santiago-Sanchez, died Nov. 21, 2024, after arriving unconscious and unresponsive at New York-Presbyterian\/Columbia University Irving Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p> Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The boy\u2019s mom had given birth just a day earlier at her home on West 143rd Street near Riverside Drive in Hamilton Heights, according to law enforcement sources.<\/p>\n<p>Hospital staff called the cops, and, after more than a year, the ME\u2019s office said this week that the death of the full-term infant was ruled a homicide.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests had been made by Friday, and the investigation was ongoing, cops said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The lifeless day-old\u00a0baby dropped off at a Manhattan hospital\u00a0by his mother last year was exposed to fentanyl and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7986,6277,1027,57,9,22196,56,63,65,64,58],"class_list":["post-69044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-babies","tag-fentanyl","tag-homicide","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-presbyterian-hospital","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}