Omaha mother charged after 2-year-olds blood-alcohol level measures three times the legal limit

OMAHA -- Mix brandy with lemon juice and rum and you get The Sidecar, a cocktail with a sometimes tart taste.

Mix brandy with your 2-year-old daughter and you get The Paddywagon — an always bitter, one-way trip to jail.

Authorities charged Omaha resident Joann Powell, 23, Thursday with child neglect resulting in serious bodily injury after her 2-year-old daughter’s blood-alcohol content measured .266, more than three times the legal limit for an adult to drive. The 2-year-old was treated at the hospital and released Tuesday.

Weighing somewhere around 30 pounds, Powell’s daughter was knocked for such a loop that she was still demonstrating the effects two days after her hospital visit, prosecutors say.

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