Mom Accused of Liquoring Up Baby
Right in my own backyard. Oh, joy.
Rebecca Kern admits putting Jim Beam Whiskey in her son’s bottle the day before a friend came to visit her.“I just put a little bit in his bottle to help him sleep. I’ve heard from other people about it. It was my stupidity.” said Rebecca Kern.
The busy mom ended up having neighbors at the apartment complex babysit and they noticed the child was behaving strangely.
“His eyes were glassy and glazed over. His pupils were huge and he was still drunk” said Jesse Behe. They noticed the smell of liquor on his breath and that’s when they realized the bottle had been spiked.
As I’ve written elsewhere about a similar case, it can take as little as two ounces of hard liquor to kill a small child. But look at the bright side: if you kill your kid, he’ll never stay up late crying again! Then you can have all the uninterrupted free time you like! Of course you’ll be spending it in state prison, where the population is, um, none too kind to baby-killers. But hey, what’s a little 5 to 10 for criminal negligence, right?
At least this mom seems to realize that she was a colossal dunderhead. That’s more than I can say for half of the people in these sad stories.
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ann adams
Aug 25, 2005 at 1:28 pm
Parents used to swear by paragoric (sp?) for colic and we knew many that used whiskey for teething as well. Never my parents and never me. Yes, she’s an idiot, but I’m willing to bet she had at least 3 generations in her family who did the same thing. It’s not an excuse, just a possible explanation.