Arkansas Mother Arrested After Drinking and Breastfeeding in Restaurant
- Selena Hill
- Mar 27, 2014 01:04 PM EDT
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An Arkansas mother was arrested and charged with child endangerment for breastfeeding her baby after consuming alcohol in public.
The incident occurred last November when Tasha Adams, a 28-year-old mother of three, went to a restaurant in Conway with her family for dinner. While there, Adams claims that she consumed two beers over the course of an hour and a half before she decided to breastfeed her six-month-old baby girl, reports the Daily Mail.
"We had a pizza, and then we had a big old thing of spinach dip," Adams told ABC News' "20/20" in an interview. "Then, I had a beer with that, and then I had another one later on after."
However, Jackie Conners, an off-duty waitress, says she was disturbed by what she witnessed.
"They looked like they were having a good time, just drinking," Conners told "20/20." "Things started getting louder and louder, and then the baby started getting fussy."
Conners, who is also a mother, continued, "There were several drinks in front of her, about ... two or three drinks in front of her already, when I got there. I watched the bartender make them, looked like Long Islands. But regardless if it was that or not, then it was strong liquor that was in those glasses."
That's when Conners reported Adams to management who decided not to cut the drinking and breastfeeding mother off. She then called her own mom and later decided to call the police.
When approached by the officers, Adams says that she confessed that she had been drinking, but that she didn't know that she had broken the law.
"I did drink. I did breastfeed," Adams said. "I didn't know it was illegal. If I knew it was illegal, I wouldn't have done it."
Although it isn't illegal to drink and breastfeed in Arkansas, the officers made a judgment call and arrested her for endangering the welfare of a child. Later on, charges against the stay-at-home mom were eventually dropped because there wasn't enough evidence to prove she had one too many drinks to care for her child.
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