A 3-year-old girl is fighting for her life after eating rat poison that her dad put out in the family’s Bronx apartment, police sources said.
The little girl has been in intensive care since Oct. 24, when her father took her to Jacobi Medical Center with vomiting and other severe flu-like symptoms.
Doctors determined the child may have eaten some of the rat poison and rushed her to Montefiore Hospital in critical condition
Police sources said the the man, his wife and their daughter had been admitted to the hospital with similar symptoms Oct. 22, shortly after the poison was laid by the girl’s father. He told doctors he thought the poison would combat a bed bug infestation in their home, sources said.
The family was released, but the father rushed the little girl back to Montefiore two days later when her health took a turn for the worse.
She is still in ICU at that hospital, police sources said.