BATTON ROUGE, Louisiana (AP) – A 4-year-old girl is dead after her grandmother allegedly forced her to drink a bottle of whiskey while her mother watched, Baton Rouge police said.
Sergeant L’Jean McKneely, a police spokesman, told the media that the little girl’s grandmother, Roxanne Record, 53, and her mother, Kadjah Record, 29, were arrested on Friday, each on a first-degree murder charge. It was not known if any of them had a lawyer who could speak on their behalf.
Police were sent to a home in Baton Rouge around 11 a.m. Thursday after reports of an inappropriate child. The child, 4-year-old China Record, was pronounced dead on the spot, police said.
The office of the coroner of the Eastern Baton Rouge parish said that the autopsy showed that the cause of death was acute alcohol poisoning. The little girl had a blood alcohol level of 0.680%, which is more than eight times the 0.08% limit for adult driving, authorities said.
During the investigation, detectives said they learned that the victim’s grandmother forced her to drink a bottle of alcohol while the mother watched.
The investigation continues.
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