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What is a fitting and just sentence for breastfeeding while intoxicated?

By Douglas A. Berman

This local story from North Dakota, which has now been picked up by the AP and UPI, seems certain to be fodder for punditry of all sorts.  Of course, I am eager to make it a sentencing story, and here are the details from the local coverage: A Grand Forks mother who police say was ?extremely intoxicated? while breast-feeding her 6-week-old pleaded guilty to child neglect Tuesday.  Officers responded to an unrelated call at a Grand Forks residence in the early morning of Feb. 13 and saw 26-year-old Stacey Anvarinia slurring her speech and breastfeeding, prosecutor Meredith Larson told the judge. Citing a police report, Larson said officers were concerned about the infant?s welfare, so they called Altru Hospital and were told that breast-feeding while intoxicated was not good for the child...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 24, 2009 (boomark / email).