An Oklahoma woman has been arrested for falling asleep drunk on top of her infant son, killing him.
Sarah Jamison, 31, was charged only with child neglect after a three-week investigation into the 5-month-old boy’s October 18 death, KOTV reported.
Bixby police said they were called to the home early in the morning and found the baby’s father performing CPR on the infant, who was gray and not breathing, a probable cause statement said.
The officers had some difficulty awakening Jamison, shining a flashlight on her and shaking the bed for about two minutes. The statement said when she did wake up, she smelled of alcohol, slurred her speech, and needed help walking to a couch.
She told the officers that “If my kid is dead, I might as well be too. She also said she had “said I needed help, I tried to get help.”
According to the affidavit, she remembered drinking a six pack of beer and a shot of rum the night before but nothing after that. She said she had stopped drinking during her pregnancy but started again about six weeks after her son’s birth. She further said she’d struggled with post partum depression, more so than with her previous children.
The baby’s father told officers that the couple drank together after he got home about 10 p.m., then Jamison took the baby and went o bed. He stayed on the couch, finding the boy under Jamison’s shoulder not breathing when he did come to bed.
Both Jamison and the father said they frequently co-slept with the baby.
A blood draw at the hospital at 8:45 a.m. — three hours after police were called the home — found Jamison’s blood alcohol content at .309, the affidavit said. For comparison, the legal limit for drivers in Oklahoma is .08.
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[Featured image: Sarah Jamison/Bixby Police Department]
