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Nov 4, 2009 9:56 am US/Central

Mom Charged For Baby Sleeping Death, 3rd In Family

MILWAUKEE (AP) ― A Milwaukee mother is charged in the death of her infant daughter, the third baby to die of co-sleeping with an adult in the woman's immediate family.
  
Rose Prescott was charged Tuesday with second-degree reckless homicide. An autopsy report says 6-day-old Ceianna Buchanan was suffocated while sleeping with an adult on a couch.
  
A criminal complaint says Prescott told investigators she was drunk and possibly fell asleep with her baby last March. Prescott's 2-month-old daughter, Brianna Buchanan-Prescott, died while sleeping with her mother in April 2008.
 
Another baby in Prescott's immediate family also died while co-sleeping with an adult. Ceianna and Brianna's 5-month-old half-sister, Cierra Buchanan, died while co-sleeping with Cierra's grandmother in 1993.

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