A baby girl was pronounced dead Friday after her father retrieved her from a Queens daycare center — and the girl’s mother later charged that she was dead when he picked her up.
Daniella Okoye, 1, was rushed from her Springfield Gardens home to Franklin General Hospital in Valley Stream, LI, where she was declared dead, cops said.
“She came home dead,” Okoye’s mom said through tears. “We took her to day care; that’s where she died.”
When the day-care worker handed the baby to her dad, it appeared the girl was sleeping, said family friend Terrance Cooper.
“It was presented to the father as if she were sleeping, which is why he didn’t go to the hospital,” said Cooper, an upstairs neighbor.
But cops believe the girl died after she was taken home, a law-enforcement source said later Friday.
Police are continuing the investigation.