Dejoynay M. Ferguson, 19, was charged with first-degree murder after she was allegedly caught on surveillance camera suffocating a four-month-old girl at a daycare center

A 19-year-old Delaware daycare worker has been charged with murder after allegedly putting on latex gloves and suffocating a baby that wouldn't stop crying.

Dejoynay M. Ferguson, 19, of New Castle, Delaware, was charged with first-degree murder after she was allegedly caught on surveillance video smothering the baby girl until she was unresponsive.

The incident was said to have taken place at the Little People Child Development Center in Bear, Delaware, at about 10.30am on September 5.

According to court documents obtained by the Delaware News Journal, Ferguson was seen on video picking up the four-month-old girl off the floor by the front of her shirt, and then putting her on a changing table.

Ferguson, wearing the gloves, then allegedly used her hands to cover the child's face for more than three minutes. It wasn't until the baby was 'unresponsive and motionless' that she took her hands off the baby's face and returned the baby to her crib.

Police said in a statement that Ferguson waited about 20 minutes before telling the daycare center owner that the baby was unresponsive, leading to a 911 call. When police arrived, the took the baby to the hospital, where she was declared dead.

Court documents stated that when interviewed by police, Ferguson admitted that she grabbed the girl by her shirt because she was 'fussy' and wouldn't stop crying.

The incident took place at Little People Child Development Center (pictured) where Ferguson was assigned to the 'infant room' and had worked for less than a year

Ferguson (pictured) was said to be a certified early childhood assistant teacher and have passed required state background checks

Ferguson was said to have been assigned to the 'infant room' and was a certified early childhood assistant teacher, according to CBS Philly.

She had worked at the Little People Child Development Center less than a year before the incident occurred.

Following the child's death, the Office of Childcare Licensing suspended the license of the center indefinitely.

A spokesperson for the Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families told the Delaware News Journal that the daycare center did not have any 'noncompliance issues' during its May inspection and that all employees had passed the required background checks.

However, the state's website listed that the child care center had one reported 'facility injury' occur during the years of 2016, 2018 and 2019. It's unclear what the injuries were and whether any children were involved in those incidents.

During an interview with the Delaware News Journal, daycare center owner Janice Palmer said that she had 'never had someone die' in her care.

'Do you know what that's like? Do you know what that's like to have a baby die in your hands?' she said, noting that she 'worked on this baby.'

Palmer, who owns the daycare center with her husband and son, said that they 'have cooperated fully with the investigation; we've turned our entire building to the state police. We want to make sure justice is served in this case and we do not want to do anything to jeopardize the state's investigation.'

She added that the family doesn't 'want anything, not one single thing' to interfere with investigators doing 'what they need to do so that this person is brought to justice.'

Ferguson is being held in jail on a $1million cash bond.