Mom Arrested After Allegedly Trying to Shut Her Crying Baby Up with Bourbon
Based on reporting by The Smoking Gun.
Lori Sheppard, a 28-year-old woman from Arkansas, couldn't pacify her ten-month-old infant, who appeared to be suffering from teething pains. She called her mother, who advised her to rub some alcohol on the baby's gums.
Instead, she put some bourbon in the baby's bottle and fed it to him. Her toddler son later found the baby lying unconscious in the playpen. Sheppard was charged with child endangerment and aggravated assault.
She initially denied feeding the baby alcohol, but later confessed to putting it in the bottle. The baby's blood alcohol content was .19.
After days of treatment at the hospital, the baby recovered and was placed in the care of welfare workers.
Pictured above, Sheppard was booked into jail on the felony charges.
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