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Woman jailed for poisoning baby with breast milk

Updated on: 30 December,2011 05:32 PM IST  | 
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A 30-year-old Russian woman was Friday sentenced to three and a half years in jail for poisoning her two-week-old baby to death by nursing him with breast milk while she was drunk.

Woman jailed for poisoning baby with breast milk

A 30-year-old Russian woman was Friday sentenced to three and a half years in jail for poisoning her two-week-old baby to death by nursing him with breast milk while she was drunk.


The court in Novgorod region said that Marina Shnip drunk about a litre of porto May 4.


The concentration of ethanol in her blood reached 2-2.5 percent. She then twice nursed her baby. The baby died from poisoning soon after.


An analysis showed that the concentration of ethanol in the baby's blood was 0.4 percent.

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