Bridgeport, CT — Juliette Dunn, 29, was arrested last month after witnesses at a local park flagged down a couple of officers to complain that a mother was forcing alcohol on her children at the playground.
Dunn and her companion, 33-year-old Lisa Jefferson, were spotted sitting in the grass near the playground with two young children next to them. As officers approached the gruesome twosome, they noticed an empty 40-ounce bottle of Steel Reserve beer on the ground beside Dunn’s 4-year-old son. A baby bottle laying next to Dunn’s 10-month-old daughter contained a dark liquid that smelled like booze.
Witnesses reportedly told police they watched as Dunn handed the 40 to her son and demanded that he chug-a-lug. Afterwards, witnesses said, she called the boy an alcoholic.
The children were taken to the hospital where it was determined they both had alcohol in their system. While being examined, the 4-year-old reportedly told a social worker he “likes Natural Ice beer and Budweiser, but doesn’t like the taste of Dog Bite.” The infant also tested positive for cocaine.
Dunn later told police she gave her son a bottle of beer every day, but claims she had no idea how the infant tested positive for coke because she isn’t breastfeeding.
Dunn and her friend were both charged with two counts of risk of injury to a child and two counts of second-degree assault. Both remain behind bars in lieu of $100,000 bond.
Tags: alcohol, assault and battery, Connecticut, Drugs, Juliette Dunn, Lisa Jefferson, risk of injury to a child
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