A 53-year-old Florida grandmother was arrested last week after her 10-month-old grandson died in her care last year, according to reports .
Tibina Louissaint faced a Broward County judge Saturday for the alleged aggravated manslaughter of her grandson, Josiah Tobias Fenelu.
The warrant claims that Louissant was taking care of her grandson Josiah Fenelus on the weekend of the incident. Officers responded to a home in Oakland Park on the morning of August 21, 2022 regarding an infant who had became “unresponsive.” Josiah was pronounced dead upon arriving at the hospital.Police launched an investigation, and in October 2022, the Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office determined that the child had a “a lethal concentration of the powerful antihistamine cyproheptadine” in his system, the statement says. The Food and Drug Administration states cyproheptadine, which can be legally administered only with a doctor’s prescription, is an antihistamine that can also be used for appetite control and to “enhance” appearances.
“The child had swelling of the brain, pulmonary congestion, and a small hemorrhage of the scalp, which is bleeding between the scalp and skull,” a prosecutor said in court. “The toxicology results show this was essentially an overdose of what looks like cough syrup.”
The boy’s mother claimed she didn’t receive the toxicology report until nearly a year after her son’s death. It is not known why investigators waited so long to make an arrest in the case.
Louissant bonded out of jail after a judge imposed a $50,000 bond. She was ordered to have no unsupervised visits with minors.
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