BATON ROUGE – A jury found a grandmother guilty of manslaughter after she forced a 4-year-old girl to drink alcohol as a form of punishment, resulting in the child’s death.
In April 2022, first responders discovered 4-year-old China Record unresponsive in a home on Wallis Street. Investigators said that the child’s grandmother, 53-year-old Roxanne Record, caught the child taking a sip of whiskey before allegedly forcing the girl to drink the rest of the bottle.
The girl’s mother, 28-year-old Kadjah Record, allegedly witnessed the incident without intervening, according to police. The child died with a blood-alcohol level of .631 percent, according to the East Baton Rouge coroner…