SUCCESS VILLAGE, Conn. (PIX11)—
A Connecticut mother is in police custody Friday after police say she fed her 10-month-old daughter alcohol and cocaine, and made her 4-year-old son down a bottle of beer at a local park.
According to authorities, 29-year-old Juliette Dunn was sitting with her two children and a friend identified as Lisa Jefferson at a playground when police officers approached them, after having been called over by another mother at the park.
Officers reportedly discovered a nearly empty 40-ounce bottle of Steele Reserve beer lying near the toddler and a baby bottle that smelled like alcohol.
Reports say witnesses tipped off police after watching in shock how one of the woman egged on her son to chug the bottle of beer. After he was done, she reportedly called him "an alcoholic."
Both women were arrested at the scene and the children were transported to a nearby hospital. Tests later determined that both children had consumed alcohol while the 10-month-old tested positive for cocaine.
Dunn and Jefferson, who both remain behind bars on $100,000 bail, were charged with two counts of risk of injury to a child and two counts of second-degree assault.
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