Baton Rouge police recently reported that 53-year-old Roxanne Record, from Louisiana, wanted to teach her four-year-old granddaughter about alcohol drinking and forced her to consume a bottle of whiskey.
A report from the Daily News via Yahoo! News specified that China Record, the girl died late last week of acute alcohol poisoning. According to the investigator, the grandmother forced the child to finish a bottle of whiskey while the mother of the girl, 29-year-old Kadjan Record was watching.
Both women were apprehended and booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on Friday, each on a charge of first-degree murder.
Police said the young girl drank more than half of Canadian Mist, an 80-proof whiskey, after both her grandmother and mother became mad at her for taking a sip from the bottle of wine left on the kitchen counter, a television report said.
Forced to Drink
Roxanne forced her granddaughter to drink what was left in the bottle which was possibly more than half full while on her knees in their hallway, explained the investigators.
The mother, who saw what was happening, did not do anything to prevent it. Later, she placed the unresponsive child in a bathtub, the detectives reported in the arrest papers.
Sgt. L'Jean McKneely, a spokesman for the Baton Rouge Police Department said "little China had a blood alcohol level of .680 percent when officers arrived at the family home.
In Louisiana, any driver who is found to have a blood-alcohol concentration above.08 percent can be apprehended and charged with DWI. China's level was found to be more than eight times the limit.
Similar Alcohol Consumption by a Child
Earlier this month, The Mirror reported about a father and mother who were arrested after their dead four-week-old baby was found to have more than four times the legal alcohol limit that would be authorized for an adult when driving a vehicle.
Police arrested 25-year-old Marquis Simon Colvin and 25-year-old Sydnei Moran Dunn, who are accused of killing their four-week-old newborn with alcohol poisoning in the Paulding County in the state of Georgia in the United States.
The baby was brought to the hospital by the parents and was unresponsive. More so, the parents stated that she had consumed a large quantity of alcohol one day before and the child must have gotten the poison from the alcohol from her while she was breastfeeding.
She then said that the father of the child put alcohol in their baby's bottle, with doctors claiming the infant had an amount of alcohol in its system that was way more than times the lawful limit of an adult individual.
The danger of Alcohol Poisoning for Children
A Poison Control report specified that alcohol can be a dangerous poison for children. The beverage, in particular, depresses the central nervous system and causes low blood sugar.
Children who consume alcohol can experience and consume coma and seizures, and could even die. This is true of alcoholic beverages such as wine, beer, and liquor, and alcohol present in mouthwash, as well as other personal care products.
This same report indicates that alcohol is indeed, very dangerous for children. Low blood sugar is a hazardous impact on children who consume alcohol.
Moreover, children who consume alcohol might stagger when walking, speaking without making sense, or appear sleepy. They might vomit since alcohol can irritate the stomach.
Breathing and heart rate might slow down to a hazardous level. There's a drop in blood pressure and the children can pass out, and as mentioned, even die.
Related report about the girl who died from alcohol consumption is shown on Today News's YouTube video below:
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