Baby Goes Into Coma After His Grandmother Mixes Wine In Milk Powder

A four-month-old baby is now in a coma after his grandmother mixed wine accidentally with his milk powder. It is suspected that the infant’s grandmother mixed the liquids after confusing the wine bottle with the baby’s dark-coloured glass water bottle while preparing the milk, according to local reports. The woman, from Francavilla Fontana in the southern Italian city of Brindisi, gave the baby the bottle around midday on Monday. He drank some of the milk powder-wine mixture and then refused to drink any more.

After smelling the bottle, she rushed her grandson to the nearby Perrino Hospital, where he received urgent treatment and had his stomach pumped. He was subsequently intubated and transferred to the Giovanni Children’s Hospital in Bari yesterday, where he remains in intensive care.

According to local media, the child’s condition is stable and improving and there is currently no threat to his life. Prosecutors and local officials are aware of the case and are reviewing the baby’s medical records to decide whether to press criminal charges.

Last year, two women narrowly avoided jail after recording a video of a little girl being given wine. The chilling video shows a woman shoving a glass bottle into the mouth of the child, who was just 18 months old. The footage was taken in Midlothian on the outskirts of Edinburgh on January 20, 2020, and shows the baby’s head being forced back as the woman raises the bottle to her lips.

The camera then zooms in on the little girl’s face, which is out of focus, before she throws her head back and lets out a scream. Two women, both in their 20s, appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Monday to face child protection charges.

Sheriff Alistair Noble said although it appears the baby was fed alcohol, the woman has admitted a lesser charge and there is no evidence to support the more serious abuse allegations. As reported by the Daily Record, both have pleaded guilty to displaying threatening and abusive behaviour by creating the video.

Sentencing yesterday, Sheriff Noble said: “You have pleaded guilty to a charge that is quite different to the original charge. You have both pleaded guilty to creating a video showing (the mother’s child) drinking alcohol, although there is no suggestion that it was alcohol that she was given to drink.

The pair admitted that they caused “distress and fear” to the public by the nature of the video and therefore pleaded guilty. He added that a prison sentence was not warranted for the offence.