Russian downed half-litre of ethanol before feeding
A baby in Russia's Far East died from his drunken mother's breastmilk after she downed half a litre of ethanol before feeding him, the region's investigations committee said after sentencing the woman this week.
Yelena Sinitsyna was handed a one-year suspended sentence and a three-year probation period on Wednesday for death by negligence of her four-month-old son in the small town of Sretensk, near China and six hours east of Moscow.
"On 3 April between 2 and 3 p. m., she drank half a litre of spirit alcohol.
"In her drunken state she then breastfed her son," the committee reported on its website, www.zabsledkom. chita. ru.
"The immediate cause of the child's death, according to a forensic examination of the corpse, was acute ethanol poisoning."
Sinitsyna was given a relatively light sentence as she must care for her surviving toddler, the committee's report added.
Eighty per cent of crimes committed in Russia are connected to alcohol consumption, the Interior Ministry there said on Friday, citing a report it says it will publish soon.
A spokesman at the ministry declined to comment on the Sinitsyna case.
The ruling court also said Sinitsyna, if found to be an alcoholic, would receive treatment for alcoholism.
Russians are some of the world's heaviest drinkers and demographers often cite high alcohol consumption as a factor in the low life expectancy of Russian men.
Campaigns to discourage alcohol consumption have persisted throughout Russian history from the time of the Czars and through the Soviet era.
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