This week, we asked readers their thoughts on a proposal to include funding in the City budget to pay family members who don’t wish to leave their kids at a daycare to care for young children directly. As reported, the proposal was made by Otoniel Feliz-Samboy, the father of one-year-old Nicholas Dominici, who tragically died after he was apparently fatally poisoned with fentanyl at Divino Niño Daycare Center in Kingsbridge Heights on Friday, Sept. 15, as reported.

 

“I think that’s a brilliant idea! I think it’s safer for the children and the family members [to] take care of the children anyway [but] they don’t have the resources. I think it’s safer because that fentanyl is likely in more daycares and we just don’t know about it yet. So, I’m so glad that they were busted. It’s bad enough trying to get rid of the crack era. Now, we have the fentanyl era.”

Vanessa Goodwin,

Parkchester

 

“I do believe that children need to be exposed to other children, so that they can [interact] with them, but I can see where it would be a lot safer, and your children aren’t exposed. I’m in favor of education, more inspections and parents need to be involved, not just send them there. There was one that I took her [child] to. I’m in the process of pulling her out of daycare because they make them be quiet during lunch. They lost her; it’s been horrible.”

Breanne Dolan,

Parkchester

 

“Well to be honest, right now, I’m scared of this situation happening here with the daycare. I’d like to stay home and take care of my daughter. Yeah, that’s a good idea. I know the place, and I’ve seen them before around here. I never saw anything suspicious.”

Marileny Munoz Salazar,

Kingsbridge

“I’m totally in favor of that! I don’t think they’ve been monitoring the daycares in a correct way, no, not at all. It’s a tragic situation.”

David Moran,

Kingsbridge Heights

“It’s a wonderful thing! I think it can help us a lot because now we don’t know who to trust with our kids so it’s a wonderful thing! I feel like if it could help; it would be better for your own family to take care of your kids because you can’t trust people nowadays, like what happened there [where] they found fentanyl in a daycare; that’s horrible. My wife and I are struggling with this now and we don’t know what to do.”

George Reyes,

Norwood