FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Nov. 30 (UPI) -- A national manhunt is on for the parents of a 3-month-old Fort Lauderdale, Fla., infant who died of a vodka overdose nearly two years ago.
Mardala Derival, 22, and Mackenson Dantus, 25, are fugitives charged with aggravated manslaughter in connection with the death of their child, Makeisha Dantus, in February 2004.
Fort Lauderdale Police spokeswoman, Detective Katherine Collins, said there had been numerous reasons for nearly two years to pass without charges, but the biggest hurdle was that infant deaths from alcohol poisoning are highly unusual, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel said Wednesday.
The infant was declared dead at her parents' apartment on Valentine's Day 2004. The parents told police she had suffered from a fever, oral thrush, vomiting and diarrhea for three days. To calm the child, the parents gave her Tylenol for the fever, sugar water mixed with vodka and baby formula also mixed with vodka, the medical examiner's report said. The child was not seen by a doctor, the report said.
