Mom intentionally fills 2-month-old's bottle with booze, killing him with a BAC of .179: Cops

A Georgia parent is down bars aft she allegedly filled her 2-month-old son's vessel with booze, starring to his decease with a blood-alcohol attraction of .179.

Omayrilin Colon, 37, is facing charges of murder and first-degree cruelty to children, jailhouse records say. According to section ABC affiliate WSB, Atlanta constabulary responded to a telephone connected Oct. 14 astir an unresponsive babe astatine an flat connected Perry Boulevard. Paramedics rushed the lad to a infirmary wherever helium was pronounced dead.

While determination were nary evident signs of trauma, authorities conducted an autopsy with toxicology investigating to find a origin of death. The boy's BAC was .179, which is much than doubly the ineligible bounds of .08 for an big to legally thrust a vehicle. The origin of decease of the lad who has not been publically identified was intoxicant poisoning, per WSB.

What constabulary discovered adjacent was shocking: The intoxicant poisoning was nary accident, investigators determined. Colon purposefully filled the boy's vessel with alcohol, cops say. Investigators were besides capable to find that the booze came from the vessel and did not walk done bosom milk. It's unclear what benignant of intoxicant was utilized and wherefore Colon would allegedly bash specified a happening to her ain child.

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Police obtained an apprehension warrant aft the toxicology reports came back.

Colon was arrested connected Thursday and remains successful the Fulton County Jail without bond. It's unclear erstwhile she is adjacent slated to look successful court.

Neighbors told WSB they were stunned.

"It's not indispensable to origin harm to anyone, fto unsocial children," the neighbour said. "It's heartbreaking and maddening."