Mom properly jailed for letting baby smoke dope
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A Montana mother who allowed her 18-month-old baby daughter to inhale from a marijuana water pipe on several occasions was properly convicted, but should not have to spend five years in jail, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday.
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SAN DIEGO - A mother who left her 7-year-old son locked in the trunk of a car while she partied in a bar has pleaded guilty to child abuse and false imprisonment.  Sarah Powell, 27, and her boyfriend, Jake Faria, 30, entered their pleas Monday as part of a plea bargain.
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A mother-of-two is due to be sentenced for stealing from two men after spiking their drinks with a date-rape drug.
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SANTA CRUZ, Calif. - A jail inmate allowed to attend a family funeral returned to the jailhouse 12 hours later with a stash of drugs and syringes in his stomach, authorities said.  Joshua Robertson, 30, of Boulder Creek, had been in jail since Oct.
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AN INFERTILE mother who gave birth to a so-called &quot;miracle baby&quot; was the victim of a &quot;cruel deception&quot; by child traffickers motivated by financial greed, a High Court judge in London ruled yesterday.
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LONDON -- On Nov. 9, Margaret Smith, who was sentenced to life in prison in 2002 for smothering her 4-month-old son, was acquitted at a retrial. She was one of several British mothers who lost one or more children in infancy and were convicted of murder.
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A couple who used a now defunct legal loophole to lie over their son's death, are jailed for perverting the course of justice.
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SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. - A 62-year-old grandmother who prosecutors said ran drugs to support her bingo habit has been sentenced to three years in prison and a $150,000 fine.
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London - An infertile mother who gave birth to a so-called &quot;miracle baby&quot; was the victim of a &quot;cruel deception&quot; by child traffickers motivated purely by financial greed, a judge in London ruled on Friday.
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Parents who smoke near their newborn babies are turning their children into heavy passive smokers and putting them in danger of breathing problems and cot death, a new study shows.
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The state Supreme Court has allowed a woman who served a prison term in Florida for the death of her child to regain custody of a 3-year-old boy born after she moved to Illinois.
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A father is jailed indefinitely after killing his three-month-old son by giving him methadone and diazepam.
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A 68-year-old British woman who cooks with cannabis to ease her depression, aches and pains walked free from court Wednesday after being convicted of growing and possessing the drug.
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Â· Judge rules that woman hands over boy to father  Â· Compulsive desire to parent led to deception
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The son of Miami Police Chief John Timoney was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in federal prison for trying to buy 400 pounds of marijuana from an undercover agent.
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Farida's son inherited her drug addiction in the womb, and drank her opium-laced breast milk. And when he cried and fussed, she calmed him with specks of opium diluted in tea.
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A woman convicted of swinging her newborn son like a weapon at her boyfriend and fracturing the infant's skull was sentenced Wednesday to five to 10 years in prison.