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| 2 Month Old Hospitalized, Had Blood Alcohol Level of 0.364 |
| 2006-12-05 |
| We've got some strong contenders for "Parents of the Year" here. A 2-month-old girl was in good condition Monday after being hospitalized with a blood-alcohol level more than four times the legal limit for an adult driver, police said. The infant was taken to Memorial Hospital early Sunday with a blood-alcohol level of 0.364 percent and was being treated in the intensive-care unit. "I'm told by the hospital that the child is in good condition," police Lt. Rafael Cintron said. He declined to release any further details. Hospital spokeswoman Sharon Miracle said alcohol is "virtually a poison" at levels as high as those found in the infant. "Any time you give alcohol to a child, and at that quantity, it is extremely dangerous," she said. At that level, it could possibly kill an adult, much less a tiny baby. Authorities were still investigating how the girl ingested the alcohol. Cintron said the incident was being investigated as child abuse. Authorities said they believe the mother's boyfriend dropped the woman and child at the hospital and left. They said the mother had given conflicting stories and the whereabouts of the boyfriend were unknown. The El Paso County Department of Human Services was given custody of the baby, Cintron said. May that poor little girl recover fully and quickly, and never ever be returned to the people who did that to her. |
| Posted by:Swamp Blondie |
| #8 Greg we have the same thing here at our pub. It's a family thing. The locals would beat the stuffing out of someone that started to give their kids booze.... So why isn't this mom in jail right now? I'm guessing the victim crowd would raise a fit. |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2006-12-05 17:34 |
| #7 I'm what might be considered a "regular" at a neighborhood watering hole. I've known the owner for almost 20 years and had the same bartender for about 17 of that. I can't tell you the number of times I've seen newborns or infants only several weeks old brought into the bar along with their mother or parents. It's so commonplace we don't even think about it anymore as scandalous (it's annoying when the kid starts to cry however). |
| Posted by: FOTSGreg 2006-12-05 17:26 |
| #6 Turned out that he had a rare condition that fermented carbohydrates in his digestive tract, so he was a walking beer machine. Systemic candidiasis? |
| Posted by: eLarson 2006-12-05 13:26 |
| #5 I remember this one poor individual who was utterly perplexed by being arrested for being staggeringly drunk--because he didn't drink. But his blood alcohol was sky high. Turned out that he had a rare condition that fermented carbohydrates in his digestive tract, so he was a walking beer machine. He was given some drugs to help, but was basically condemned to the Atkins diet for the rest of his life. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-12-05 13:05 |
| #4 Back in the olden days of La Belle France, when alcohol (red wine) consumption was much higher than today, kids were given red wine at a very early age, starting with milk for infants. IIRC, this was changed after WWII, when the gvt promoted giving milk to children, instead of red wine (which was seen as nutritious and health-building, even if kiddies showed up drunk at school). |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-12-05 12:33 |
| #3 Rubbing alcohol isn't ethanol, they put whiskey in the kid's bottle. Parents knew what they were doing was wrong. Just spectacularly bad judgement. |
| Posted by: gromky 2006-12-05 10:58 |
| #2 I was gonna guess that maybe she got into the cabinets, or something and found rubbing alcohol. Then, I realized she's ONLY 2 months old. I'm not a real big fan of gov't intrusion into reproduction, but some people just need to be sterilized. Wonder if she had a cold/fever and was given a LETHAL hot toddie, or something with whiskey. I was given that as a child, but in SMALL doses, with honey. Sounds like this one was out of that scene in Sweet Home Alabama: "Oh, you have a baby.....IN A BAR!" |
| Posted by: BA 2006-12-05 10:34 |
| #1 ...I work for a private social services agency, and we see stuff like this on a regular basis. Makes you want to take the parents and just start beating them until they figure it out. Then beat them some more because they were that stupid in the first place. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2006-12-05 09:05 |