Family Mourns Infant's Death in Woodbridge

Woodbridge, NJ - Friends and family are in deep mourning over the death of William Vidaurre, the six-month-old baby who died suddenly Dec. 1 while being watched by a babysitter at her Iselin home.

The babysitter, Marianne McIntire-Caulfield, 62, was charged Wednesday with a second-degree count of endangering the welfare of a child. At the time of the child’s death, she was watching seven other infants along with William, the Middlesex County prosecutor charges.

She also kept her home on Middlesex Avenue in unsanitary conditions, police allege.

McIntire-Caulfield noticed the child was “in distress,” prosecutors said, and called 911 at around 4:45 p.m. that day. EMTs found the infant unconscious and not breathing, and performed CPR. The child was pronounced dead at JFK Medical Center in Edison.

“On December 1, 2015 heaven gained a sweet, little angel,” was written on a GoFundMe page set up by friends of the bereaved parents, Robert and Tracy (Mone) Vidaurre. Friends set up the fundraiser to help the couple with any financial hardships. So far, $4,880 has been donated. Any money not needed by the family will be donated to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital.

The couple has two other children.

McIntire-Caulfield was not a licensed daycare operator, Middlesex County prosecutor’s spokesman Jim O’Neill said. Officials are awaiting the final autopsy results of the child’s death, pending toxicology testing.