Police: Mom Breast-Fed Child While Driving
Mom Tells Police She Wouldn't Let Child Go Hungry

POSTED: 9:48 am EST February 28, 2009


KETTERING, Ohio -- Police say an Ohio mother has been charged with child endangerment after another driver reported she was breast-feeding and talking on the phone while driving.

The caller told police in suburban Dayton that he spotted the minivan-driving mother dropping off children at a school Thursday morning.

Officer Michael Burke said authorities used a license plate number to track down 39-year-old Genine Compton, who told them she was breast-feeding and wouldn't let her child go hungry.

He said the child was under 2 years old.

Burke said the legal concern is that Compton had a child in her lap, not that she was breast-feeding in public.

He said she faces up to 180 days in jail and a $1,800 fine if convicted of the misdemeanor.