Police say Curtis Jack admitted that he added antifreeze to his newborn daughter’s milk to avoid paying child support.

Police say Curtis Jack admitted that he added antifreeze to his newborn daughter’s milk to avoid paying child support.

A Georgia father was sentenced to 50 years in prison on Thursday for using antifreeze mixed in breastmilk to poison his 18-day-old daughter four years ago.

Curtis Jack was arrested on Oct. 16, 2020, after his daughter became sick and tested positive for ethylene glycol — a chemical found in antifreeze.

Investigators said Jack had picked up bottles of breastmilk from the child’s mother two weeks earlier while she was hospitalized after giving birth to their child.

“After delivering the breastmilk to the child’s grandmother, who was also caring for the woman’s other daughter, the child became critically ill within 24 hours, suspected of being poisoned. Jack admitted to adding antifreeze to the breastmilk to South Fulton Police Department detectives,” police said in a statement on social media.

    • acetanilide@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Found some US data. Not sure of current numbers because I didn’t look that hard. Also these numbers are from memory because I’m too lazy to reopen the pages I found, so look at the sources themselves before you quote me on it.

      Anyway, as of a few years ago in New Mexico they could take up to 50% of an inmate’s pay to put towards restitution.

      It looks like last year there was a rule proposed federally that would allow up to 75% of inmate wages to be garnished. Similar numbers for money coming from outside sources like commisary funds.

      I also found a spreadsheet of inmate wages. And boy is it ugly.

      Also I read somewhere that restitution orders are only good for 20 years. Not sure if that can be renewed after that or if that was the maximum time.

      So basically the victims are fucked, the inmates are fucked, the state is fucked, and somehow private prisons are lucrative.

      https://prospect.org/justice/2023-04-07-bureau-prisons-account-garnishment/

      https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/wage_policies.html

      https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2017/04/10/wages/