A Missouri jury convicted a 23-year-old woman on Tuesday for poisoning her twin babies by pouring rubbing alcohol into their chocolate milk, the New York Daily News reported.
Gloria S. Jones, of Clay County, may be locked up for five years now that she has been found guilty of poisoning her 1-year-old twin daughters in October 2012.
Jones said she was distraught when she combined the alcohol with chocolate milk and fed it to her babies through sippy cups. One of the twins was in a near-fatal state and required a ventilator when they were taken to a Kansas City hospital, the newspaper reported.
The poisoning does not appear to have permanently injured the twins, who are now 3.
Police charged jones with endangering the welfare of a child, which carries a prison sentence of 4 to 14 years.
After Jones fed the twins, their father came home and bounced one of his daughters on his knee, according to a police report obtained by the newspaper. The baby threw up on the father, afterwards which he detected the smell of alcohol in her vomit.
The mother apparently fed one twin more chocolate milk than the other.
"Rubbing alcohol can be lethal in doses as low as eight ounces in adults," Clay County Prosecutor Daniel L. White said according to KCTV. "It doesn't take much to put a child at risk; one of the twins had to be placed on a ventilator."
Jones told police she mixed rubbing alcohol into her kids' sippy cups because she was stressed out from taking care of them. She also said they were being "whiny" and she thought the alcohol would calm them down, according to the station.
The jury decided Jones should serve three years for the first count of child endangerment and two years for the second. Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 7.
