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By COURTNEY HUTCHISON, ABC News Medical Unit
Aug. 5, 2011
<snipped>Charges against a California mother have been upgraded from manslaughter to second-degree murder this week after evidence at preliminary hearings suggested that she knowingly endangered her infant's life by breast-feeding while using methamphetamine.
Six-week-old Anthony Acosta III died last year after an allegedly lethal amount of the drug was passed to him when his mother, Maggie Jean Wortman, 26, continued to breast-feed despite her meth habit.
Wortman is pleading not guilty to charges of murder, arguing that it was not the meth in the infant's bloodstream that resulted in his death, Wortman's attorney, M.C. Bruce, told ABC News.
<snipped> Wortman claims that she had no knowledge of the fact that using meth while breast-feeding could be dangerous to her baby.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Drugs/...d-murder-breastfeeding-meth/story?id=14231552
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Aug. 5, 2011
<snipped>Charges against a California mother have been upgraded from manslaughter to second-degree murder this week after evidence at preliminary hearings suggested that she knowingly endangered her infant's life by breast-feeding while using methamphetamine.
Six-week-old Anthony Acosta III died last year after an allegedly lethal amount of the drug was passed to him when his mother, Maggie Jean Wortman, 26, continued to breast-feed despite her meth habit.
Wortman is pleading not guilty to charges of murder, arguing that it was not the meth in the infant's bloodstream that resulted in his death, Wortman's attorney, M.C. Bruce, told ABC News.
<snipped> Wortman claims that she had no knowledge of the fact that using meth while breast-feeding could be dangerous to her baby.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Drugs/...d-murder-breastfeeding-meth/story?id=14231552
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