Mom gave her children beer and cocaine

[meegbear]

A (Bridgeport, CT) city woman was in custody after police said she forced her 4-year-old son to chug a bottle of beer and then gave her 10-month-old daughter beer and cocaine.

Juliette Dunn, 29, of Success Village, was charged with two counts of risk of injury to a child and two counts of second-degree assault and was being held in lieu of $100,000 bond. A female companion, 33-year-old Lisa Jefferson, was arrested on the same charges and also had a $100,000 bond.

According to police, officers were patrolling Success Village June 28 when they were waved down by a neighbor who complained that a mother was feeding her children beer on the playground.

Police said they spotted Dunn and Jefferson sitting at the playground, the young children on the ground next to them. As officers approached them, police said they spotted an empty 40-ounce bottle of Steel Reserve beer on the ground beside the boy. They said a baby bottle next to the baby contained a dark liquid that smelled strongly of an alcohol beverage. Dunn was identified as the children's mother.

Police said witnesses told them that Jefferson had handed the bottle of beer to the boy and ordered him to chug it. When he had finished it police said Jefferson called the boy an alcoholic.

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Police said Dunn told them Jefferson gives her son a bottle of beer everyday but she didn't know how her 10-month-old daughter tested positive for cocaine since she doesn't breast feed her.

http://www.ctpost.com/policereports/article/Cops-Mom-gave-her-children-beer-and-cocaine-1529179.php

[blueamy66]

1. I have great nieces and nephews of those ages....

makes me sick to even read this.

[Obamanaut]

2. Connecticut. Yup

When there is an OP re weird, bizarre, horrendous, etc. actions by anyone in Florida or Texas, there will often be a one word response in the thread - "Florida" or "Texas" - suggesting that's where all the weird stuff happens.

Turn about is fair play.

There is no geographic boundary to weird. It is everywhere

[YellowRubberDuckie]

3. If they were to do this in Oklahoma, they'd get out ORO.

Because no one in our state gives a crap about kids. Our DHS system is a JOKE.

[Shagbark Hickory]

4. Glad she got caught.

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. Sounds to me like she was trying to get caught -

there is no possible way she would not know this would get the kids taken away from her, and her doing it in a public place.

There is a different option that depressed, overburdened young mothers take regularly. She did not take it - the kids are alive.

I hope she gets help.