Daniel Oster, 44, told authorities he woke up in his young family’s Park Slope apartment on the afternoon of November 1 to find Ruby’s daughter’s “10-month-old lips” “blue and eyes stiff” – and then tried in vain to save her. with Narcan, Assistant Attorney Tien Tran told Daniel’s court in Brooklyn Criminal Court. The distraught dad, who had been using heroin that day, told police he gave Ruby Narkan “in case I got into a fight,” the ADA said. Paramedics were called to the scene and found the baby unconscious and unresponsive, and later found dead at a nearby Methodist Hospital, the NYPD said. Medical examiners in the city found that Ruby had died from an overdose of fentanyl and heroin – with enough drugs in her body to “anesthetize an adult,” Tran said. Police have not yet determined how Ruby swallowed the fatal drugs. Her father – who was arrested Friday night and charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and endangering the well-being of a child at her death – put “heroine packs” in the bathroom, Tran said. The city’s medical examiners found that Ruby had died from an overdose of fentanyl and heroin – with enough drugs in her body to “make an adult feel numb”. Daniel has since admitted to authorities that he took heroin the day Ruby died, although he initially claimed he had not used drugs for two days, Tran said. Tran asked Judge John Hecht to keep Daniel in court. Daniel’s lawyer, John Godfrey of the Legal Aid Company, asked for a “reasonable guarantee” to be set and told the judge his client had cleared. “He works in landscape construction. “He’s attending Anonymous Drugs,” Godfrey said. “She is friends with the mother of the child. Ambulances were called to the scene and found the baby unconscious and unresponsive. “He surrendered,” the lawyer noted. The judge ordered a psychiatric treatment for Daniel and set his bail at $ 250,000 or $ 100,000 in cash. “There is extreme recklessness, it is a danger of escaping because of his drug use,” Hecht said. Daniel Auster was charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and endangering the well-being of a child on April 15, 2022. Paul Martinka Daniel did not speak at the hearing. None of his family appeared to be in court. Daniel’s award-winning father, Paul, wrote The New York Trilogy, The Book of Illusions, and The Palace of the Moon. Daniel’s mother, Paul Auster’s first wife, is the author Lydia Davis. Daniel’s stepmother is novelist and essayist Siri Hustvedt, Daniel was awake and awake when his wife, Jean Smith, went to work and left him with Ruby on November 1, according to Tran. Smith called home around 1pm and could hear the baby in the background. Daniel called 911 less than four hours later, at 4:26 p.m., the prosecutor said. Paul Auster wrote “The New York Trilogy”, “The Book of Illusions” and “Moon Palace”. CHRIS J RATCLIFFE / AFP via Getty Images The autopsy, which ruled the death was a homicide, showed no signs of bruising or injury to the baby. Two of Daniel’s neighbors told The Post on Saturday that after his daughter died, they walked out of the apartment building and saw baby items outside to pick them up. “Everything – all the baby clothes, books, toys – was just heartbreaking,” said one resident who did not want to be named. Daniel Auster was handcuffed by the Brooklyn Criminal Court. Paul Martinka Daniel pleaded guilty more than two decades ago to stealing $ 3,000 from drug dealer Andre “Angel” Melendez. Melendez was assassinated in 1996 by his roommate, the promoter of the New York “Club Kid Killer” party, Michael Alig. Daniel’s father and mother divorced in 1978. That same year, Paul married Houstved, whose books include “The Blindfold,” “The Enchantment of Lily Dahl,” and her best-known work, “What I Loved” (2003). Elder Auster and Hustvedt have both written fiction that appears to be inspired by Daniel’s problems, the Guardian reported in 2006. Hustvedt’s “What I Loved” features a relationship between an artist and his drug-addicted son. and the son’s stepmother. Oster also reportedly wrote a character based on Daniel in his 2004 novel Oracle Night, in which the narrator has a drug-addicted son who terrorizes his stepmother, the Guardian said. Daniel’s father and sister, who both live in Brooklyn, declined to comment when they visited The Post on Saturday.
