A mother has been jailed for 20 years for killing her six-week-old daughter allegedly with a morphine overdose delivered through her breast milk.
Stephanie Greene, 39, was found guilty of homicide by child abuse, involuntary manslaughter and unlawful conduct toward a child after a trial in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Greene will have to serve 16 years before she is eligible for parole. She said nothing in court and quietly shuffled out of the courtroom, her hands and feet shackled, after she was sentenced.
Prosecutors said Greene, a nurse, knew the dangers of taking painkillers while pregnant and breast feeding.
But she chose to hide her pregnancy from doctors so she could keep getting her prescriptions, they claimed.
Greene's lawyer Rauch Wise said she was trying to stop a pain she suffered from a car crash years before and relied on her own judgment and internet medical research instead of medics' advice.
Greene, who lost her nursing licence in 2004 for trying to get drugs illegally, is still overwhelmed with grief from the loss of her child, he added.
A toxicology report from the baby's post-mortem examination found a level of morphine in the child's body that a pathologist testified could have been lethal for an adult, prosecutor Barry Barnette said.
Mr Wise said she will appeal and the case is likely to continue for several years.
Greene was accused of killing her daughter, Alexis, with a morphine overdose from breast milk after the child was found dead in her parents' bed in 2010.
Mr Wise said both he and the prosecutor agree no mother has ever been prosecuted in the US for killing her child through a substance transmitted in breast milk.
Also, prosecutors did not prove how the baby got the morphine and there is little scientific evidence that enough morphine can gather in breast milk to kill an infant, Mr Wise went on.
"The court can't punish her any more than she already has been by losing a child," Mr Wise said.
Mr Barnette said he does not want his prosecution to stop women from breastfeeding.
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