Parents of Toddler Found Alive Hours after Being Declared Dead Slam Doc for ‘Leaving Him with Brain Damage’

The parents of an Arizona toddler declared dead, but found alive in a morgue five hours later blame his “negligent” doctor for leaving him with lifelong, severe brain damage.

Vincent Lorenzo Fiordilino was discovered floating face down in a backyard swimming pool during a Super Bowl party in Gilbert on February 8 and rushed to Mercy Gilbert Medical Center.

The two-year-old was mistakenly pronounced dead by Dr Aryan Toosi just 18 minutes after arriving, police body cam footage recorded. He was the sent to a morgue where a medical transport worker discovered he was alive and moving under a thick white sheet.

Now Alexus and Angelo Fiordilino have hit out at Mercy Gilbert Medical Center staff for convincing them their son was dead and dismissing multiple concerns that he was still breathing.

“I can’t believe Vincent was all alone in there,” the distraught mother told The Post. “It haunts me still to this day when I think about it. I hate that he went through five hours in a morgue by himself, struggling to breathe. (Read more from “Parents of Toddler Found Alive Hours after Being Declared Dead Slam Doc for ‘Leaving Him with Brain Damage’” HERE)