4-Year-Old Dead of Alcohol Poisoning After Grandmother, Mom Make Her Drink Whiskey

A 4-year-old girl died after her grandmother 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 {snip}

Both the little girl’s grandmother, Roxanne Record, and mother, Kadjah Record, were booked early Friday morning on first degree murder {snip}

Roxanne and Kadjah Record

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{snip} 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 {snip}

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