Does anyone know anything more about this case?  Does the mother have a lawyer
yet?  Does the lawyer know *anything* about breastfeeding management?  This mom
is going to need help from the breastfeeding community.

Rachael

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The following is a summary of an article in today's (1 Oct 1997) NYT
Metro section, B3.

"Mother Who May Have Fed Her Son Improperly Is Charged in His Death"

The 19yo mother of a two-month was charged with criminally negligent
homicide after her son's cause of death was determied to be dehydration
and starvation. The child was born with unspecified heart problems. When
he was losing weight (went from 7#15 at birth to 5# at death), the mom
tried to get medical attention but was turned away for lack of health
insurance. The family had been trying to apply for Medicaid for him.
"Prosecutors say Ms. Walrond, who had been breast-feeding her son,
failed to feed him properly and to heed warnings that he was becoming
sickly". The article does not clarify what the DA means by failure to
properly feed the child.