Girl, 4, killed by personal gran who pressured her to drink bottle of whisky in merciless punishment
Prosecutors say evil Roxanne Record “never liked” little China and treated her terribly during her short life, adding: “She just went on with daily life while she died”
Little China died after being forced to drink whiskey by her own gran
A gran has been convicted of manslaughter after she forced her four-year-old granddaughter to binge drink whisky. Evil Roxanne Record, 57, plied little China Record with the rest of a bottle of the booze as punishment for the youngster taking a sip.
Prosecutors said the tragic tot was forced to her knees and made to finish a 750ml bottle of Canadian Mist while her mum Kadjah Record looked on and did nothing. She is also charged with murder for failing to stop the horror and will stand trial at a later date.
Medics found China unresponsive at the family home in Baton Rouge in Louisiana, USA, in April 2022. An autopsy later revealed she a blood alcohol content of 0.680 – more than eight times the legal limit for an adult driver.
Prosecutors described a “pattern of cruelty” inside the home and said China’s siblings were conditioned to believe she was “stealing” when she tried to access basic necessities like food and water.
Assistant District Attorney Dana Cummings said: “Her grandmother never, ever took to her, never liked her, treated her differently than she treated the other children. She just went on with daily life while she died.”
Prosecutors said the punishment began when China took a single sip from a whisky bottle left on a kitchen counter. Her grandmother then forced her to drink the rest of the 750ml bottle, around 1.6 pints of 40% strength alcohol.
Roxanne Record was initially charged with murder but was found guilty by a jury of manslaughter.
During the trial, her defence attorney Caitlin Fowlkes said that while China’s death was a “tragedy that nobody should have to endure,” it was also an accident, local media reported.
She told the court that Record tried to save the girl with CPR and said the state cannot prove the “specific intent” required for a first-degree murder conviction.
Record is set to be sentenced later this summer.
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