4-year-old dead of alcohol poisoning after grandmother, mom make her drink whiskey, police say

The Advocate (Baton Rouge) ^ | 04/22/2022 | James Finn

[Drew68]

A 4-year-old girl died after her grandmother suspected she may have stolen a sip of whiskey and then forced the child to drink the rest of the bottle as her mother watched, Baton Rouge Police said Friday.

The East Baton Rouge coroner's office said China Record, 4, died Thursday from acute alcohol poisoning.

BRPD Spokesman Sgt. L'Jean McKneely said that the little girl had a blood alcohol level of .680 when officers arrived at her family's home on Wallis St. late Thursday morning — more than eight times the limit at which adult drivers are considered intoxicated.

Both the little girl's grandmother, Roxanne Record, and mother, Kadjah Record, were booked early Friday morning on first degree murder, McKneely said.

He said that officers were dispatched around 10:50 a.m. Thursday to a house in the 12000 block of Wallis Street about an unresponsive toddler. Officers found the child dead, after Baton Rouge Fire and EMS personnel tried and failed to resuscitate her, according to booking documents for the grandmother.

Those documents said that China's mother and grandmother became angry after the child drank from a bottle of Canadian Mist, an 80 proof whiskey. The grandmother then forced the child to drink the remainder of the bottle, which was "over half full," with the child on her knees in the hallway as her mother looked on, the documents say.

Whiskey at 80 proof is 40 percent alcohol.

Detectives said in the arrest papers that Kadjah Record, 28, was "present and failed to stop" Roxanne Record "from providing the alcohol," and that she later placed the unresponsive child in a bathtub.

After she was taken into custody, Roxanne Record, 53, said that "this went too far" and that she had "ruined everyone's lives," detectives said in the arrest documents.

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Roxanne Record (left) and Kadjah Record face charges in the death of Kadjah Record's 4-year-old daughter. via Baton Rouge Police

Child's bicycle and scooter under a carport are visible from the street at 12824 Wallis Street, where 4-year-old China Record died of alcoho poisoning on Thursday morning, seen Friday, April 22, 2022. The East Baton Rouge coroner's office conducted an autopsy on China on Thursday, and found she died of acute alcohol poisoning, Coroner Beau Clark said. The grandmother, Roxanne Record, 53, is accused of pouring whiskey down the throat of the child, who officers at the scene said had a blood alcohol level of .680, more than eight times the legal limit for adult drivers. Roxanne Record and the child's mother, Kadjah Record, 28, have both been arrested and are accused of first degree murder, police said

[rdl6989]

Get a rope.

[GaltAdonis]

That'll teach her.
She'll never do THAT again.

[ought-six]

“Get a rope.”

Yup.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Yep didnt even have to look..two evil scum

[packagingguy]

Definitely, alcohol poisoning must be a really bad way to go. Time to bring back old sparky on these people.

[Skywise]

Good LORD - this is the 2nd story I’ve seen this week of a young child being given hard liquor and dying from it. The other one being an infant!

WTF is going on out there?

[kiryandil]

At least they were able to vote for Potato Joe in the last “election”...

[shotgun]

These people should be forced to do the same thing.

I’m sure that little one knew she made a mistake as soon as her seaky sip hit her tongue and probably thought she’d never do that again. Then grandma went all hood rat and showed her who was boss.

[sumuam]

Another horror story from Baton Rouge. Hurricane Katrina didn’t clean up New Orleans, it simply blew the trash there to Baton Rouge, Houston, and other places that have changed forever.

[Drew68]

Definitely, alcohol poisoning must be a really bad way to go.

I couldn't imagine what they had to do to force a 4-year old to drink a half bottle of Crown Royal.

[ConjunctionJunction]

We live in bizarro world. Nothing makes sense.

[Drew68]

Good LORD - this is the 2nd story I’ve seen this week of a young child being given hard liquor and dying from it. The other one being an infant!

Yeah, I read about that one. Momma's boyfriend put hard liquor in the baby's milk bottle. Probably wanted the infant to pass out so they could keep partying.

[metmom]

After they are force fed a couple bottles of whiskey themselves.

Honestly, an eye for an eye looks better every day. If people can dish it out, they should be able to take it

[Portcall24]

We’ve come a long ways, haven’t we?

[Deo volente]

The evil that men (and women) do is often mind boggling. I cannot believe anyone is this cruel and insane, but they are.

They need to be permanently separated from society and punished severely, for the rest of their lives. Poor little child...rest in eternal peace.

[metmom]

Same demographic.

Someone’s culture is beyond broken.

[antidemoncrat]

Ignorance doesn’t even begin to describe these people.

[Rusty0604]

Too stupid to deserve a child.

[deport]

Tells you a little bit about the neighborhood when
you have to paint the address on the trash bin.