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Iesha Hill Mixed Alcohol With Baby Formula, Cops Say; Infant Had Booze In System

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The Huffington Post     First Posted: 06/11/12 12:21 PM ET Updated: 06/11/12 02:16 PM ET

A California mom is accused of mixing booze with her 5-month-old daughter's baby formula and then feeding it to her.

Iesha Hill, 26, was arrested Saturday in Stockton after she realized her daughter had alcohol in her system and took her to the hospital, according to Fox 40.

Hill's mother, 44-year-old Tressie Piggee, says the whole thing was an accident. Baby formula had been made with a bottle of what appeared to be water on Friday night -- but the unlabeled bottle turned out to be Bacardi, she told News 10.

The next morning, the paper noticed the little girl's head wobbling.

"That's when Iesha opened the bottle to see if there was something wrong with the formula -- and smelled alcohol," Piggee said. "We feel bad for the baby because she's up there suffering right now because of our mistakes."

The baby was taken to the hospital for treatment. She was in stable condition but under close watch on Sunday.

"A 5-month-old baby ingesting any amount of alcohol, that's definitely a serious situation which has to be dealt with immediately," Stockton Police Officer Joe Silva told Fox 40.

Hill faces child abuse and endangerment charges, and the incident is still under investigation.


 
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01:30 AM on 06/12/2012
Mother of the year here!!!
08:14 PM on 06/11/2012
You open a bottle that you think is water and you don't smell the alcohol? I can think of other reasons this child ingested alcohol, namely, an overwhelmed single mother who just wanted her child to sleep through the night. There is absolutely NO WAY this woman did not smell the alcohol, either while mixing it, or every time her child exhaled. Enough alcohol in the system to warrant a hospital stay would have to be significant enough to be discovered early.
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04:17 PM on 06/11/2012
Wonder how Bicardi got in a baby bottle. Hmm?