I found this on another website. Bolds are mine...
Grandmother gets prison in crack-smoke death of newborn
Carol Sowers
The Arizona Republic
Oct. 10, 2003 04:15 PM
A Phoenix grandmothe was given a four-year prison sentence Friday in a historic case in which prosecutors blamed plumes of cocaine smoke from her and others for the death of a 10-day-old girl.
Lillian Butler, 45, wiped away tears as Judge Ronald Reinstein of Maricopa County Superior Court told her that "something terrible happened to Anndreah that day."
"You were responsible for her and you failed to get her medical attention," the judge said.
Prosecutors said Butler, who was in charge of Anndreah Robertson's care, did not take the newborn for a scheduled checkup and waited until she was malnourished and dehydrated before seeking help in the last few hours of the baby's life.
Standing before Reinstein, Butler said, "I am very sorry for my granddaughter's death. And I did try hard to take care of her."
Butler, who had no previous record, pleaded guilty to one count of child abuse in the Nov. 9, 2001 death of Anndreah. Butler's daughter, Demitres Robertson, 24, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is awaiting sentencing.
Maricopa County
prosecutors blamed the baby's agonizing death on steady exposure to crack cocaine smoke from her mother, grandmother's and step-grandfather's pipes. In a precedent-setting finding, a Maricopa County medical examiner concluded that the smoke coursed through her body in her first few days of life decayed her intestines and contributed to her death.
Other doctors disagreed. And James Cleary, Butler's attorney, argued throughout the case that the baby was born addicted to cocaine and her death could have been caused by her mother's steady pre-natal drug use.
If that had been the case, neither woman could have been charged because pre-natal drug exposure is not a crime in Arizona and most states.
Reinstein said he was "aware of the conflict over the cause of death" but said "it is still obvious that cocaine was smoked around Anndreah."
Butler's brother, James Craig, asked for leniency for his sister, saying that
if she had known cocaine smoke was dangerous, "she would never have done it around the baby."
Solomon Butler, Lillian's husband, was not charged in exchange for testifying about his wife's drug use around the baby.
But on Friday, he repeated the refrain he used throughout the case, saying that he initially blamed his wife "out of anger and vindictiveness" but said she never exposed the baby to cocaine smoke.