Sunday, January 01, 2012

Russian mother jailed for killing son by breastfeeding him while drunk

A Novgorod Region court on Friday sentenced a 30-year-old woman to three-and-a-half years prison for poisoning her little son to death by nursing him when drunk, a regional Prosecutor General's aide said.

Investigators say that on May 4 Marina Shnip drunk about a litre of porto and the concentration of ethanol in her blood reached 2 - 2.5 percent. Then Shnip twice nursed her two-week old baby.



The baby died from poisoning soon after. Analysis showed that the concentration of ethanol in the baby's blood was 0.4 percent.

The woman admitted guilt.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Very sad. How can people be so stupid/uncaring?

Ratz said...

I'm amazed she survived with 2% blood alcohol! >0.5% is supposed to be fatal. Gripe water had a heck of a lot of booze in it and kept kids quiet -no prizes for guessing why.

Anonymous said...

I don't believe this. None of the numbers make any sense at all.