A drunk driver was located taking a bath while her daughter “remained in peril” at the scene of a March crash that ultimately claimed the 4-year-old’s life, the Stanislaus County District Attorney’s Office alleges.
In a news release Friday afternoon, District Attorney Jeff Laugero announced that Juliette Marie Acosta, 26, of Oakdale, has been charged with the murder of her daughter, Reagan Herrin.
The crash was the night of March 8, into an irrigation canal along Canal Bank Road near Hickman.
Citing the criminal complaint, which the DA’s Office had not released as of midafternoon Friday, the release says Acosta allegedly was driving with a blood alcohol content nearly three times the legal limit of .08%…