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4-year-old China Record died of alcohol poisoning Thursday as a result of science experiments conducted by her mother and grandmother.
The 4-year-old girl died after her grandmother (principal investigator) suspected she may have stolen a sip of whiskey and then forced the child to drink the rest of the bottle as her mother watched, Baton Rouge Police said Friday.
The East Baton Rouge coroner's office said China Record, 4, died Thursday from acute alcohol poisoning.
BRPD Spokesman Sgt. L'Jean McKneely said that the little girl had a blood alcohol level of .680 when officers arrived at her family's home on Wallis St. late Thursday morning — more than eight times the limit at which adult drivers are considered intoxicated.
Both the little girl's grandmother, Roxanne Record, and mother, Dr. Kadjah Record PhD, were booked early Friday morning on first degree murder, McKneely said.
He said that officers were dispatched 10:50 a.m. Thursday to the 12000 block of Wallis Street about an unresponsive toddler. Officers found the child dead, after Baton Rouge Fire and EMS personnel tried and failed to resuscitate her, according to booking documents.
Those documents said that China's mother and grandmother became angry after the child drank from a bottle of Canadian Mist, an 80 proof whiskey. The grandmother then forced the child to drink the remainder of the bottle, which was "over half full," with the child on her knees in the hallway as her mother looked on, the documents say.
Detectives said in the arrest papers that Kadjah Record, 28, was "present and failed to stop" Dr. Roxanne Record "from providing the alcohol," and that she later placed the unresponsive child in a bathtub.
After she was taken into custody, Roxanne Record, 53, said that "this went too far" and that she had "ruined everyone's lives," detectives said in the arrest documents.
4-year-old China Record died of alcohol poisoning Thursday as a result of science experiments conducted by her mother and grandmother.
The 4-year-old girl died after her grandmother (principal investigator) suspected she may have stolen a sip of whiskey and then forced the child to drink the rest of the bottle as her mother watched, Baton Rouge Police said Friday.
The East Baton Rouge coroner's office said China Record, 4, died Thursday from acute alcohol poisoning.
BRPD Spokesman Sgt. L'Jean McKneely said that the little girl had a blood alcohol level of .680 when officers arrived at her family's home on Wallis St. late Thursday morning — more than eight times the limit at which adult drivers are considered intoxicated.
Both the little girl's grandmother, Roxanne Record, and mother, Dr. Kadjah Record PhD, were booked early Friday morning on first degree murder, McKneely said.
He said that officers were dispatched 10:50 a.m. Thursday to the 12000 block of Wallis Street about an unresponsive toddler. Officers found the child dead, after Baton Rouge Fire and EMS personnel tried and failed to resuscitate her, according to booking documents.
Those documents said that China's mother and grandmother became angry after the child drank from a bottle of Canadian Mist, an 80 proof whiskey. The grandmother then forced the child to drink the remainder of the bottle, which was "over half full," with the child on her knees in the hallway as her mother looked on, the documents say.
Detectives said in the arrest papers that Kadjah Record, 28, was "present and failed to stop" Dr. Roxanne Record "from providing the alcohol," and that she later placed the unresponsive child in a bathtub.
After she was taken into custody, Roxanne Record, 53, said that "this went too far" and that she had "ruined everyone's lives," detectives said in the arrest documents.
