A mother has been charged with forcing her four-year-old son to drink beer in a playground and giving her ten-month-old daughter cocaine.
Juliette Dunn, 29, was arrested after she was allegedly seen ordering her son to chug a 40-ounce bottle of beer in a public park and officers found a baby bottle that smelt of alcohol next to her daughter.
When questioned by social workers, the four-year-old boy said that he liked Natural Ice beer and Budweiser, but does not like the taste of Dog-Bite beer.
Both children tested positive for alcohol and the ten-month-old girl also had cocaine in her system.
According to police, officers were waved down by a concerned neighbour in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on June 28 after she saw that a mother was feeding her children beer in the playground.
The officers found Dunn and a friend sitting in the park with the children on the ground next to them.
They spotted an empty 40-ounce bottle of Steel Reserve beer next to the boy and a baby bottle containing a dark liquid that smelled strongly of alcohol next to the girl.
Witnesses told police that Dunn had handed the bottle to her son and ordered him to chug it, before calling him an alcoholic when he finished it.
Dunn and her 33-year-old friend Lisa Jefferson were arrested and charged with assault and risk of injury to a minor. They are both being held in lieu of $100,000 bonds.
Dunn told officers that Jefferson gave her son a bottle of beer every day, but she did not know how her ten-month-old daughter tested positive for cocaine as she does not breast feed her.
