Connecticut mother pleads guilty to forcing beer on 4-year-old son, cocaine and beer to baby girl

[The Northerner]

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — A Connecticut mother has pleaded guilty to charges that she forced her 4-year-old son to drink beer and gave her 10-month-old daughter beer and cocaine.

The Connecticut Post reports (http://bit.ly/pusj6y ) Juliette Dunn, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to risk of injury to a child under the Alford Doctrine, where the defendant doesn’t agree to the facts but agrees the state has enough evidence to win a conviction.

A companion, 33-year-old Lisa Jefferson, pleaded guilty to the same charges.

Police say officers were waved down in June by a neighbor who complained that a woman was feeding children beer at a playground.

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