Jessica Ann Barlow Miner
Here’s a nice little something I’ve never heard of before.
How many of us have heard of parents who rub a little whiskey or brandy on their baby’s gums to ease the pain of teething, or even used that old home remedy themselves?
Quite a few I’d guess.
Now, taking it to the next level, how many of us have heard of people who slip their kid a little booze to help them get to sleep when they’re cranky or uncooperative? Not so many, but it’s still not that big a deal to some parents.
This is 26-year-old Jessica Ann Barlow Miner.
Back in 2007, Jessica Miner was living with her boyfriend and eventual husband, John Miner and their six-month-old son Mason Miner in an apartment near Tunkhannock in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania. Their neighbors said Mason was an extremely cute baby, but Jessica’s mother-in-law from a previous marriage said she had shared with her that she was having a difficult time raising Mason.
Jessica Minor apparently had a problem with alcohol too, and had been staying sober for an unknown length of time. However, her ex-mother-in-law said Miner had confided in her that she has recently started drinking again.
According investigators, township police were called to Jessica’s apartment, where the baby was discovered dead. When she was interviewed a short time later, Jessica told police she gave the baby liquid acetaminophen the day before.
Miner told police she nursed the baby once during the night, and he was fine at the time.
The next morning, she told police she checked Mason and found he was congested and his lips were blue. She said she called 911, and a neighbor did CPR.
She also told police she called the baby’s father and told him the baby wasn’t breathing.
At first, police believed Jessica, but slowly they discovered that things she told them weren’t adding up. Eventually a coroner inquest was convened to determine the real cause of Mason’s death.
Lab results showed the child’s blood alcohol content was .205 and that the child had the equivalent of a can of beer, a glass of wine or a shot of liquor.
Babies can’t hold their liquor like they used to.
Those results even surprised lab technicians. “That’s why they tested it twice themselves and sent it out just to another lab just to confirm the results,” said District Attorney George Skumanick. “It basically creates a toxic shock for the baby and basically shuts down the functioning organs and respiratory system,” Skumanick added.
After a year-long investigation, Jessica Ann Barlow Miner was charged with involuntary manslaughter, recklessly endangering the life of another person and endangering the welfare of a child. To view Jessica’s court records, click here.
The prosecution believes that Jessica fed Mason Miner alcohol because he wouldn’t stop crying. Mason isn’t crying anymore, that’s for damn sure.
The father, John Miner, was not charged because of lack of evidence.
Does Jessica Ann Barlow Miner Deserve Hell?
- Yes (84%, 460 Votes)
- No (16%, 88 Votes)
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1. How mauch alcohol did the father have to have before she looked good enough to do?
2. How much alcohol did she need to become do-able?
I can not call this abuse, because abuse is usually done for some evil enjoyment / thrill. It’s not quite neglect because it was directky intentional. This is pure selfishness – lazy and self centered.
She’s stage one evil – does not make any effort to hurt people (from this story), but don’t dare depend on her. Too bad she was able to aquire sperm in a manner that would fertilize and egg in her womb.
Whatever the outcome, she needs to be spayed so no others will have to take a chance at life with her!
Ok, all you forensic experts–how were they able to do a blood alcohol test after the baby was dead? The alcohol doesn’t stay in the system, does it?
If she couldn’t deal with the baby’s crying, she could have gotten a script for xanax for heself, not drugged the baby! What a dumbass. Now she’ll have to live with this for the rest of her life.
According to INTERPRETATION OF MEASURED ALCOHOL LEVELS IN FATAL AVIATION ACCIDENTS by Dr Shelley Robertson, Alcohol can easily be measured post mortem from blood, eye fluid, and certain other bodily materials, if certain precautions are taken. Most of the inaccuracies scientists get end up being false low readings.
The only cases I read that Dr. Robertson warned about that could result in a false positive would be if the specimen was contaminated or the body had been allowed to decompose for several days before taking samples. Since we know the medical examiner had Mason’s remains immediately after death, the later case can’t be true, and since they did three separate tests by two different labs, we can safely assume the former isn’t true either.
You can download a copy of Dr. Robertson’s paper HERE.
Maybe she’s one of those people that believes in drugs only when they are recreational or not prescribed….
Xanax WORKS… and if she’d had some, maybe that baby would still be alive. It’s highly apparent that she is just not cut out for motherhood.
I would think that alcohol would stay in the body after death because your body is no longer filtering it out by way of the kidneys, liver, etc. It doesn’t have anywhere to go once your body stops metabolizing (at death), right? Anyhow, I’m no forensic expert.
I was going to say the same thing, but I was going to say that the liver did the filtering. Live and learn.
Ask yourself why Alcohol can stay in a glass at concentration and not in a human being.
The answer is we metabolize it, we filter it and we dispose of it. Dead babies can’t do that, so the alcohol stays in their bodies and can actually be measured in different amounts in different organs.
Alcohol does not magically disappear from you as the night goes on. You dispose of it.
@ Fred
Damn straight!!!
You know, just cause it worked for you doesn’t mean everyone wants their kids as dumb as you. Fucking tool.
Come and see- it’s apparant by your weak attempt to be edgy and dark that you are at the very least mildly retarded. If you are gonna to troll, TRY HARDER. Douche.
Come and See… this is a nice community of people with pretty good senses of humor. There is no need for you to be antisocial here. It looks like you have a pretty good sense of humor (the draino comment might have been funny under different circumstances). But you really have to establish a personality here before people think that is funny. And if you don’t have the credibility, then you have to add a line that makes it clear you were just joking. Like: “seriously, what was this bitch thinking??”"
I can’t decide if you are a troll or just someone who doesn’t quite “get it”. But if it’s the latter, why don’t you just say that you are not really a nasty person, and give us a chance to get to know you?
(disclaimer: I have not seen too many of Come and See comments – been busy with finals – if he is a genuine troll, then please ignore this message.)
Edgy He’s about as edgy as a fanny pad. An inexperienced troll…Max, maybe we can ‘turn’ him before he becomes fully fledged. Does anyone know how to hold an intervention?
You have friends?
btw – that was a joke. Maybe.
Ok all funnies aside, Jessie here is one stupid bitch. Teething problems : rub on a little bonjella. Baby is crying : check its diaper, check its temp, give it a feed, talk to it, gently rock it. If all else fails call your mum or a neighbour or friend and get them to take over for a little while so you dont get overly stressed. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES DO YOU GIVE BABY BOOZE.
There should be a Parenting for Dummies book brought out and distributed to every new parent before they leave the hospital with their new bub.
Bet she’s desperate fo a drink right about now.
:( This is too horrible for words.
does anyone realize that this piece of crap has 2 other children? the father and step-mother of are trying to get full custody of them. she doesn’t deserve them either.
I knew she had other kids kim, but I couldn’t find any mention of how many, ages, names or any other information about them, so I left them out of the story. If you can give me their names and ages, and whatever info you know about this custody thing, I’d like to update my article.
Other Kids??
1. She must be real good with the makeup (go to bed with a 10, wake up with a 1)
2. Looks good in the dark
3. Robbed a sperm bank
Ummm….is it just me or did they list her gender as “male”?
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/5907061/PA-v-Jessica-Barlow-Baby-Alcohol-Poisoning
By the way, this bitch is fucked up in the head and deserves to be poisoned as well, in my opinion.
It’s not you. It clearly says “SEX: MALE”. Damn, lol.
And alcohol is legal while marijuana isn’t, why?
For God did not send Jesus into the world to condemn
the world, but so the world might be saved through
Him.
Anyone who calls on the Son is granted eternal life; but
those who reject the Son will remain dead and subject
to God’s eternal wrath.
For fucktards were not sent to the world to think, but to feed their young babies enough booze to kill them.
Anyone who defends a fucktard will be viewed as a fucktard; but those who do not defend a fucktard will exude common sense, morality, and a willingness to protect those fellow beings that are innocent.
What are you saying Scotty? That Mason, the 6-month-old baby, rejected Jesus, so God allowed him to be killed? Thanks very much for sharing that Scott. Now, please, do us all a favor and shut the fuck up.
You realize, if you hang yourself, and ask God’s forgiveness right as you black out, you’ll still go to heaven….
and leave us the fuck out of your stupid sentiments.
Thanks.
“For God did not send Jesus into the world to condemn the world” No problem, I am more than happy to take that job. Anything I can do to help the big guy – I’m right there….
“World? I condemn thee” … OK done. Now let me start condemning this ignorant bitch who killed her baby.. k?
Go grab your bible and read it again. You might start to understand that God does not expect us to just sit around watching people kill babies. He expects us, as a God-loving society to protect the babies. He expects us to keep the evil ones away from the babies.
You can choose to forgive anyone you choose, but God never said that we all HAVE to, did He? He said that HE does. That’s cool. He can forgive anyone he wants to. So can you. But shut the fuck up about telling US who to forgive. It’s none of YOUR business.
Oh, and if you still don’t get it after re-reading your bible, might I suggest that you shove it up your ass? It will do just as much good for you there. Have a blessed day.
Okay, now we not only have a troll here, but a preacher as well. Just great.
Another thing–who ever heard of rubbing whisky or brandy on a baby’s gums? Whisky doesn’t have a numbing effect, so again I’m assuming that whoever does that is just trying to drug the baby. I’m sure there are legitimate medications that could be used to help the baby’s teething pain other than booze.
It was a common folk remedy back in the old days. It did seem to work, and some holistic people actually still do it. A spoon of brandy with honey is another common old remedy for coughs in babies and children. In general it’s not harmful.
I don’t know about now, but when my daughter was a baby, liquid tylenol had alcohol in it, and I think dimetap did too. Small amounts. And there was a big brouhaha in the media about it, because stupid mothers were drugging their babies with the products, because the alcohol made them sleepy. Can you imagine? The damage that tylenol can do to the body is probably like 100 times worse than the alcohol.
Anyway, I would say that it’s unnecessary, but if parents gave their babies teeny amounts of alcohol, for a legitimate purpose, it would probably be ok. But that’s assuming that parents are not ignorant, irresponsible dumbshits like this woman.
Heh.
From what I understand, the information regarding pregnancy and early child care keeps changing constantly. I found this out from seeing how much things have have changed since my oldest, who is nearly seven. That being said, I never drugged my kiddo up with baby tylenol, nor did I use Ambesol. I guess I just have balls of steel or really good earplugs. I also did not swaddle or use a pacifier, both things that I will be looking into this next time. Again, things change.
Drugging your baby up with booze…? There’s a difference between rubbing rum or whatever on their gums and an ENTIRE shot down a 6 month old baby! lol And I do agree that the ambesol would have been easier. Heck, she could have tried the frozen baby toy thing, or failing in that, at least if she was going to booze up her kid, she could have breastfed him after one of her benders! Then he’d just likely lose a few IQ points, but at LEAST he’d be alive…
No, I don’t do that. In case anyone wondered. LOL Anyone old enough to remember when they recommended pregnant women drink the occasional beer? I was told that a couple of years back and it was such a change from the strict NO ALCOHOL EVER stance the medical field still has.
6 months is way to early to drink. She should have known that.
When I was two my father was caring for me, and I had a terrible cold. He gave me half a shot of whiskey with honey in it for coughing. My mother found out and never let him forget it.
BTW: How do you get a six month old baby to ingest that much alcohol? Most little kids usually hate booze.
Back in the day, (before teething medicines were available) it was common for mothers to rub whiskey on a babies gums to numb the pain and apparently it worked pretty well. It was a practice that was even encouraged by doctors and some grandmothers still do it today…However, the difference between then and now is we HAVE medicine at our disposal and no longer need to use whiskey. Obviously this worthless piece of tampon couldn’t pry her coin purse open for the few dollars it would have cost to pick up some anbesol…. her babies life apparently was not worth $3.50.
You know, this sick cooz is no better or worse than the vile scumbag women who drink and do drugs through their pregnancies. WHY HAVE KIDS AT ALL???
They are dumb, that’s why.
when i look at her pathetic face i want to beat the living shit out of that dumb ass bitch. she’s a worthless piece of shit that doesn’t even deserve to breath air. i hope she rots in hell. CUNT
There’s no excuse for her actions. She knew or SHOULD HAVE KNOWN that what she did was wrong, and that’s enough to convict. She was just a lazy, selfish, narcissistic excuse for a mother who didn’t want to be bothered.
If she has other kids, woe to her in court. She’ll never stand a chance now.
(Fred’s still trying to figure out how she got laid. lmao)
I really struggle to understand why any mother would shovel that amount of alcohol into a tiny little person… Teething is a tough time, some babies seem to suffer more than others and yes its hard going but again this appears to be another case of a half wit mother far too inadequate to care for her offspring successfully… Why is it that these useless fucks are always so prolific? Whether this woman is evil or not does not concern me, the fact is a little baby died because he was unfortunate enough to be birthed by a retard… Life really is little more than a lottery at times…
Ok so I watched something similar to this on a television talkshow…can I name names? Eh, I will. The Steve Wilkos show had a mother who had filled her infant daughters (4 months old) bottle with straight gin. The baby of course died. But the dumb cunt went on tv blaming anyone she possibly could. She took a lie detector test which proved she lied and actually did it….She claimed she didnt remember. She must have been drunk or high or something. But, correct me if I am wrong, if she was too drunk to remember–how could she fail a lie detector test–wouldnt she believe she didnt do it if she didnt remember.
She also said she kissed her daughter goodnight, but didnt smell the liquor on her. Seriously? If someone drinks an 8 oz baby bottle full of straight gin—there is gonna be an alcohol smell.
Anyways, the baby had a .8 blood alcohol level. Yes. POINT EIGHT.
She has yet to be charged–or at least there was no talk of it at the end of the talk show. Maybe I should check into that.
I guess my point is–WHY. I guess I should be glad I dont think along the same lines of idiots–or I would be featured here. I just wonder sometimes; do they honestly think this stuff sounds like a good idea?
I dont know if any of you ever think like this…but have you ever thought of some sort of parallel universe, where maybe some of the stuff we see on here is “normal” and they ended up in our universe by accident? I know thats weird, but sometimes I think that when I see something really bad. Prolly you should just ignore that last part. :D
Agreed. I don’t know why the bitch from the Wilco’s show wasn’t chaarged with murder. I guess when you are a woman you can get away with stuff like that sometimes.
I have a great idea. Lets take 1 gallon of vodka and use neddles to shoot her up with it. And I mean use a vain on her neck so it goes right to what little brain that bitch has and see what happens.
Im game and I will do it. Send her my way.
When I was 13, my mom gave me nightcaps on 2 occasions to get me to sleep. It was midnight and I was hyper as usual. Running all over the house and she had work the next morning. Anyway it worked. I fell asleep. She lessened the amount of alcohol because I was a child. That woman is as stupid as she is fugly.
who the hell votes “no” to these things?
do u people watch the news???i know this girl and know she would never do anything to hurt her children.and why wasnt there more focus on the dad too..not my point. Everyone jumps believe everything you hear.Condemn Condemn..good thing we still dont hang people.There would be so many people hung that were innocent.I dont believe in rubbing alcohol on babies gums.But if some of you mothers read ingredients in cough medicine,tylonal..alot of medicines it contains alcohol.think bout it.They did another autopsy and it says the only thing in the baby was tylonal.Just because someone says so everyone believes it..
I just checked my bottle of infants TYLENOL. No alcohol of any form.
Maybe TYLENAL is some knock-off, back-woods, maybe brewed up in yr Grandpappy’s still variety that’s part moonshine? You might want to look for the other brand.
Jus’ sayin’.
aw shit, man! Tylonal? That’s the stuff made in China with their back-woods hooch! Even I’m getting my redneck brands of baby booze, I mean, pain relievers all mixed up…
And another thing not only was she convicted of killin her baby she has to live with the lose of her child.Knowin in her heart she didnt do anything.There are so many childen out there dying and being abused beyond recongnition those idiots get away with it and they put someone who loved her kids in jail.now they have to set her free.because HMMMM they found out the truth.
You’re absolutely right kim. We were working with bad evidence, and drew our conclusions from that evidence. With the state of the proof now, I never would have written Jessica Miner up. There’s too much reasonable doubt.
FYI, Jessica was never convicted, she was only indicted. Since then, she has been free on bail awaiting trial. Also, it was Dr. Gary Ross, a Lackawanna County pathologist, took another look at the evidence and determined that the combination of glucose plus the decomposition of the body could have triggered a false blood-alcohol reading. So the system worked – this time.
Also, Wyoming County District Attorney Jeffrey Mitchell did not exonerate Ms Miner, he filed a petition to drop the charges against Jessica Ann Miner, stating that after additional investigation, he would not be able to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt. I’m not sure how significant that is, but it can be very.
Whatever the case, I will update this story ASAP to reflect the dropped charges. Fair is fair.
ty for that..I still cant believe that she would ever harm her children and I pray to God that they do find the cause of his death.And I really hope for own sake she never touches alcohol again.
Well not being able to prove a case is not the same as being innocent. Reasonable doubt has let many guilty parties go free. If alcohol didn’t kill the child I would like to know what did.
How much alcohol can a child get from breastmilk? It said she nursed the baby before bed. Could she drink enough alcohol for it to pass through and give that high of a reading for a little baby?
She was found not guilty it was something to do with what they do to the child after He was gone and that is what showed up. She loved her son and will miss him dearly. This needs to be taken off she is innocent and to make her out to be a monster after she was found not guilty you need to take it off and write a retraction.
Based only on your word, nothing will be removed from this website.
However, if you post links to proof that she was vindicated, that might change. No retraction will be necessary, however.
She was NOT found not guilty. She was NOT found innocent. She did not go to trial for such a thing to happen. The charges were dropped for the time being because of lack of enough evidence. If you are still confused, read the update.
Ann the update is here just like Southern Lady has said and it has zero to do with anything you wrote.
If you know her so well shouldn’t you also know that she didn’t go to trial?
I find that truly amazing.
It was brought back in 2009 it was dropped in 2007 so she has been going threw everything the past 2 years. I do know her personally and im guessing you dont cuz if you did you wouldnt be writeing this i will have your proof.