CHALMETTE, La. – A St. Bernard Parish couple is in hot water after allegedly filling a 1-year-old's bottle with a chocolate-flavored daiquiri during a parade Sunday.
Deputies arrested the father of the child, 19-year-old Nicholas Lee, and his girlfriend, 19-year-old Jaelin Manuel, who is not the baby’s mother, after a witness saw them pouring the daiquiri into the baby’s bottle at the Irish, Italian and Islenos Community Parade.
According to the witness the baby drank from the bottle, said St. Bernard Parish Chief Deputy Sheriff James Pohlmann.
Pohlmann said after the witnesses notified police, a detective went to the couple and found the bottle. It’s not known how much the baby consumed. He said the detective found a brownish liquid in the bottle and noticed a brown stain on the child’s shirt.
Pohlmann said the couple wouldn’t confess to feeding the baby the daiquiri, but he said they did admit to putting some daiquiri into the bottle.
An EMS worker checked out the baby but it was decided he didn’t need to be hospitalized. Police called the baby’s mother to pick her son up.
Manuel was released from prison on a $5,000 bond, while the baby’s father is being held under a probation hold.
Two others were arrested at the parade in unrelated incidents:
- Violet resident Ray Miller Jr., 22, was removed from Float 35 and booked with obscenity and disturbing the peace after “allegedly exposing himself to the crowd,” Pohlmann said.
- Metairie resident Danielle McDevitt, 22, was also removed from her float during the parade and booked with obscenity and disturbing the peace. Pohlmann said according to reports from witnesses, she had been dancing on Float 28 “in exotic fashion” and had pulled out one breast from a bikini top.
Both Miller and McDevitt were released on bond, but the sheriff’s office said the amounts were available.
