Baby Lisa's Mom: I Was Drunk When She Vanished

Today.com/msnbc.com ^ | October 17, 2011 | Scott Stump

[truthkeeper]

In the latest twist in the case of a missing Kansas City infant, the child’s mother admitted that she was drunk on the night of her baby’s disappearance and expects to be arrested.

Breaking a nine-day silence, Deborah Bradley, the mother of missing 10-month-old Lisa Irwin, told NBC News about her behavior on the night of Baby Lisa’s disappearance and her fear of possibly being arrested given the nature of the latest questioning by investigators.

“Judging on how the questioning went, that’s kind of the fear that I have,’’ Bradley told NBC’s Peter Alexander in an exclusive interview alongside the baby’s father, Jeremy Irwin, that aired on TODAY Monday. “The main fear is that if they arrest me, people are going to stop looking, and I’ll never see her again, and I’ll never know what happened.’’

[Southnsoul]

Yeah, I’ve noticed that too... maybe he’s hidden the baby from his drinking wife.

[Sarah Barracuda]

He had that look like he wanted to spill the beans but couldn’t muster the courage to do so. I think he is the one that disposed of the body. I dont think Deborah knows anything, she blacked out, she has no idea what she did..the Husband is trying to protect her from the truth

[MD Expat in PA]

She admits to drinking to the point of passing out and or blacking out, but when asked if she thinks she has a drinking problem or if there is anything wrong with drinking that heavily while taking care of several young children, she says “no”, “of course not”, what’s wrong with having a little “me time””.

"She was sleeping. You know, I don’t see the problem in me having my grown up time," Bradley said. "I take good care of my kids. I keep my house clean, do their laundry. I kiss their boo-boos. I fix them food. I’m involved in their school stuff. I mean, to me, there’s nothing wrong doing what I want to do after dark."

Denial; it just isn’t a river in Egypt.

I was willing to give her the benefit of the doubt but I have a feeling this isn’t going to end well, for her or baby Lisa. : ( .

[abigailsmybaby]

I don’t think they’re married are they?

Maybe his plan was to leave her but he wanted to take both kids (the boy is his anyway) with him so he “stashed” the baby girl with a relative and was planning on escaping with the boy a few days later. He’d pick up the baby from the relative and the 3 of them would have been on their way to freedom.

That’s my conspiracy theory and I’m stickin’ to it. :)

[abigailsmybaby]

I don’t think she knows anything either. I think she was passed out. Whether she accidently killed the baby and he disposed of the body or he killed the baby and disposed of the body........

[Sarah Barracuda]

I dont believe he killed the baby. Is it possible, yes but I really do doubt it. He would have no reason to. Look at these people, they don’t look like the smartest people on the planet. I don’t think they would be able to concoct this huge conspiracy. I think it’s real simple, the fact that she is bringing up the fact that she was wasted out of her mind that night, that she wants to get a lesser sentence once the body is found..use the fact that she blacked out as an excuse. The whole cell phones missing thing makes no sense to me, like they tried to make this into some Law and Order SVU kind of kidnapping

[matthew fuller]

"it looks like one of the parents did something horrid."

And just exactly are you referring to when you say "parents"? The baby momma has a different name from the baby; but baby momma is apparently living with a third(fourth?) male boyfriend. I see nothing resembling a parent is this whole tribe.

[abigailsmybaby]

I really don’t think he did either. I can’t see any reason for him to do that. Her being so wasted that she doesn’t know what happened....the answer is in there somewhere.

[matthew fuller]

Maybe I’m confused on this one because of Bradley not having Irwin’s last name.... But I swear I heard somewhere that Bradley’s current squeeze was a “boyfriend”. But all reports I have seen call him the father.

[Southnsoul]

Sounds good to me. ;)

[Immerito]

Excellent question.

My understanding is that anything the mother ingests transfers to mother’s milk. But I am not certain how long that process takes, or whether it would be diluted.

Hopefully a Freeper nurse or doctor will see this and be able to answer.

[Palladin]

Please put me on the list.

Interesting case.

[momto6]

Please put me on the ping list.

[Palladin]

“Some creep at his work wanted to take the baby to sell it.”

Don’t think so. He was working at Starbucks that night.

[Palladin]

The baby was bottle fed and eating baby food from a jar.

(Many videos.)

[chris_bdba]

FYI the baby is now 11 months old .I believe she turned that over the weekend.

[PeskyOne]

Please add me to the Baby Lisa pinglist.

[21twelve]

“..there’s nothing wrong doing what I want to do after dark.”

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Until your child wakes up with the flu and is throwing up and needs his mommy.

Or has a scary dream.

Or has a fever of 102.

Or the apartment catches on fire. (Happened near here to a family at my daughter’s school. Mom and dad doing drugs, apartment caught fire - perhaps from the pot pipe stashed back in the bathroom drawer. Mom and dad made it out, the three kids didn’t.)

Or is a baby and wakes up crying. At best - “okay, come up here and snuggle with mommy while she has her ‘grown-up’ time” and smothers her. Or at worst - “Damn kid won’t shut up, I can’t handle this anymore. All I want is some peace and quiet and some time alone but it’s always something with that kid.”

[truthkeeper]

You are all now on the Baby Lisa ping list.

[miss marmelstein]

Put me on. This is shaping up to be another mommy-monster story.