WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) - Wausau police are recommending a 23-year-old woman be charged in the death of her infant who suffocated while sleeping with her and a man last March.
First responders were called to the woman’s Wausau home early the morning of March 30 on a report of an infant who wasn’t breathing. An autopsy found the 3-month-old boy was accidentally asphyxiated due to an unsafe sleep environment, according to police.
The mother drank alcohol and smoked marijuana with an 18-year-old man before they went to bed and that Huron placed her infant in bed with them, police said. She woke to find the baby unresponsive.
Police said their review of records showed the mother had been warned in the past not to sleep with her newborn and had been provided educational materials on safe sleeping.
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