Word: bremer
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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That Lynn Bremer is an attorney with a good job was not enough to keep her from developing a cocaine habit. The fact that she was pregnant was not enough to make her drop it. So when her daughter tested positive at birth for the presence of drugs in her urine, health officials in Muskegon County, Mich., took the child into temporary custody. But, to Bremer's astonishment, there was more. The county prosecutor stepped in to charge her with a felony: delivery of drugs to her newborn child. The means of delivery? Her umbilical cord...
...After Bremer completed a drug treatment program, she regained her daughter, who is apparently healthy. But the criminal charges remain. "I could lose her," says Bremer. "I could go to prison, and she could grow up with who knows who." Prosecutor Tony Tague is unmoved. He says the threat of prison is sometimes the only way to get pregnant addicts to seek treatment: "Someone must stand up for the rights of the children...