Flippy - I Rant, You Read
Saturday, July 16, 2005
Unbelievable - And People Don’t Want *Us* To Have Kids
Mother of drunken baby charged
BARTLESVILLE, Okla. An Oklahoma woman who allegedly drank so much that she gave birth to a drunk baby is charged with child neglect.
A police affidavit says Melissa Tanner had a blood alcohol content of point-two-nine percent when she gave birth June 30th. Police say the baby girl was at point-two-one percent.
Hospital staff had to use an oxygen bag to help the baby start breathing and gave her medication to counteract any narcotics.
Police say Tanner told them she and another person had just polished off a case of beer—and that she regularly drank during pregnancy.
A sheriff’s investigator says the baby has fetal alcohol syndrome.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists the syndrome as the leading preventable cause of mental retardation and physical deformity. The severity of the girl’s disability won’t be known until she is older.
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I have always believed that people should have to have a license to have children. There are some people who should not be parents under any circumstances and that story is a case in point.
Un-freaking-believable!
Expat on 07/18 at 06:50 AM -
Child neglect? That’s it? Sounds more like abuse or reckless endangerment. That’s just disgusting.
Grace on 07/19 at 07:26 AM
