OCONEE COUNTY — Lawsuits have been filed in the aftermath of the May death of a 2-month-old who was in the care of a daycare facility in Seneca.

The wrongful death and survivor’s lawsuits each seek in excess of $100,000 in damages.

The lawsuits were filed Monday in the Oconee Common Pleas Court by Anderson attorney Anthony Harbin on behalf of Andrena McCauley, grandmother of the late Zay Avion Morris of 431 Echo Hill Trail in Seneca. The defendants in the two lawsuits are All God’s Children Daycare; Creative Kids, doing business as All God’s Children daycare, and daycare owners Wanda and Doug Nichols.

The lawsuits indicate that Zay was left at the South Fairplay Street daycare center on May 6. According to the lawsuit, after being fed a bottle that afternoon, Zay was found “unresponsive, very pale, and not breathing.”

They lawsuits include the claim that two daycare workers waited more than 30 minutes to call 911. Emergency medical services workers responded, but Zay was pronounced dead at Oconee Medical Center. His death has been ruled a positional suffocation.

According to the complaints, since Zay’s death, the South Carolina Department of Social Services has forbidden All God’s Children Day Care from caring for children under the age of 2.

Police, arriving at the Oconee Hospital System, were met by Oconee County Coroner Karl Addis, who told the officer that the child was in respiratory distress and had died, according to Seneca police reports at the time.