May 5, 2022- 8:14 p.m.
A 4-year-old girl in Louisiana died April 21 after her grandmother allegedly forced her to drink over half a bottle of whiskey, according to police.
Roxanne Record, left, and her daughter Kadjah Record are each charged with first-degree murder
An autopsy by the East Baton Rouge coroner’s office showed that China Record died of acute alcohol poisoning.
Police said that the little girl’s blood alcohol level was .680 percent when officers arrived at her house.
Her 28-year-old mother Kadjah Record and 53-year-old grandmother Roxanne Record were initially angry after the girl took a sip from the bottle of Canadian Mist whiskey.
The grandmother then forced the child to drink the rest of the bottle, which was “over half full” with the child on her knees.
The grandmother said that the incident “went too far” and that she had “ruined everyone’s lives”, according to police.
The police said that investigators learned that the mother was “present and failed to stop” the grandmother “from providing the alcohol,” and later placed the child in a bathtub.
“Fair to say that this has probably one of the most violent child abuse prevention months that we have had in a long time,” Allgood said.
