Co-Sleeping Deaths in Milwaukee: INEXCUSABLE

That campaign to prevent co-sleeping deaths in Milwaukee didn't help 10-day-old Egypt Holloway or one month, 28-day-old Brandi Gilmore.

Both infants are dead.

From FOX 6 News:

The Milwaukee Medical Examiner reports a one month, 28 day old infant died in a co-sleeping incident on New Year's Eve, while sleeping on two crib mattresses on the floor of a living room with three other children.

The Medical Examiner's report says Brandi Gilmore was being cared for by her 22-year-old aunt, before being passed off to a 10-year-old aunt for care. The report says the 22-year-old aunt noticed the infant unresponsive just before 10:00 p.m., and called 911. Paramedics responded to the scene and the infant did not respond to any medical interventions.

The Medical Examiner's report says the baby's mother, Stephanie Blake and the baby's father went to bed and left the baby in the care of the 22-year-old aunt. According to the report, the baby's father, Brandon Gilmore told officials the baby usually sleeps in bed with him.

The report says four children total were sleeping on the two crib mattresses pushed together on the floor, and the baby was cradled in the crook of an aunt's left arm, face up.

I don't understand the parents/caregivers of these defenseless little ones.

Why not put their precious babies in a crib in order to prevent the tragedy of putting them in a grave?

This is child neglect, pure and simple.

A case could be made that it's child abuse.

Co-sleeping deaths in Milwaukee have been an issue for YEARS.

These deaths are preventable, but nothing changes.

Parents/caregivers must be held accountable.

Why are we giving them a pass?

It's wrong.

For YEARS, the response has been the same: 'Hopefully, people will learn and it won't take another co-sleeping death to get parents/caregivers to provide their infants with a safe sleeping environment.'

Prediction: Soon, there will be another co-sleeping death in Milwaukee. And another, and another, and another.

The reason more infants keep dying needlessly: Parents/caregivers aren't punished for their negligence.

If you're responsible for smothering a baby to death, there should be a punishment.

Actions have consequences, unless your baby dies as a result of a "co-sleeping incident" in Milwaukee.