Kettering, Ohio'''Police say an Ohio mother has been charged with child endangering after another driver reported she was breast-feeding and talking on the phone while driving.
The 911 caller told police in suburban Dayton that he spotted the minivan-driving mother dropping off children at a school Thursday morning. Officer Michael Burke says 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 says the child was younger than 2 years old. Burke says the legal concern is that Compton had a child in her lap, not that she was breast-feeding in public. He says she faces up to 180 days in jail and a $1,800 fine if convicted of the misdemeanor. The women was spotted and reported by another motorist as she drove along merrily breast-feeding her child while talking on a cell phone.
And, after investigating Police told Compton that it's against the law to drive a car and not have all the children inside the car restrained. The mother says she didn't do anything wrong and may do it again. "I don't want anything to happen to any of my children, that's why I tell them to get in the seat belt, but this particular morning that child wanted to eat, and I did feed my child," said Genine Compton.
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