Mom gets jail for smothering daughter while breastfeeding

HAGERSTOWN, Md. - A Maryland woman who killed her 2-month-old daughter by passing out drunk on top of her while breastfeeding is going to jail.

Twenty-two-year-old Yadina Morales, of Hagerstown, Md., was sentenced Tuesday to 15 months after entering an Alford plea to involuntary manslaughter. An Alford plea is not an admission of guilt but an acknowledgement that the state has enough evidence to convict.

Prosecutors agreed to drop some charges, including child abuse and reckless endangerment, as part of the plea deal.

Morales was arrested in November after the infant's father came home and found Morales passed out on top of the unresponsive child.

Morales registered a blood-alcohol level of 0.256, more than three times the level for a drunken driving conviction. The judge says the mother's actions were grossly negligent.