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InvisibleSimplepowa
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Toni Medrano, Dubbed 'Vodka Mom' By Nancy Grace, Committed Suicide, Police Say
    #16540181 - 07/16/12 03:37 PM (11 years, 8 months ago)

Nancy Grace is in the spotlight again following the suicide of a 29-year-old Minnesota mother of four who was recently featured on her television show.

According to the St. Paul Park Police Department, Toni Medrano, of Cottage Grove, Minn., died Saturday at a local hospital. It is believed Medrano's death is the result of a July 2 incident in which she allegedly set herself on fire while visiting her mother's St. Paul Park home.

"Through the preliminary investigation, the officers determined there was a flammable liquid that she used to set herself on fire," St. Paul Park Police Chief Michael Monahan told The Huffington Post.

While authorities say they suspect Medrano's death is a suicide, an official cause of death is pending.

"I can tell you preliminarily that she died of complications from thermal injuries -- that means fire," said Don Gorrie, a spokesman for the Ramsey County Medical Examiner's office. "We won't be signing the death certificate until all of our testing process is done ... and it could be weeks."

Last month, Grace dubbed Medrano "vodka mom", because the woman had allegedly killed her newborn after a night of heavy drinking.

"The baby is dead because of vodka mommy," Grace said during her June 11 show on HLN. "I don't care if she was driving a car, holding a pistol or holding a fifth of vodka. [It] doesn't matter to me. The baby is dead at the hands of the mommy."

Medrano's 3-week-old son, Adrian Alexander Medrano, died while sleeping on the couch with her on Nov. 22, 2011. According to the criminal complaint, Toni Medrano told police she had consumed almost an entire fifth of vodka the night before her son died and fell asleep with him on a couch. The following morning, she woke up and found her infant son unresponsive and cold to the touch.

Medrano's husband told authorities he had awoken to his wife screaming, "the baby is dead," according to the criminal complaint. Medrano's husband called 911, but paramedics were unable to resuscitate the child. The baby was pronounced dead at Woodwinds Hospital in Woodbury.

According to the criminal complaint, a preliminary blood-alcohol test conducted by police showed Medrano's level to be .11 percent, which is three points higher than the state's legal driving limit.

An autopsy by the county medical examiner's office determined Adrian Medrano had died of "asphyxia due to being laid upon while sleeping with an adult."

In June, Medrano was charged with two counts of second-degree manslaughter. If convicted on both counts, Medrano would have faced a maximum of 10 years behind bars.

During her television show about the baby's death, Grace said the charges filed against Medrano weren't harsh enough.

"I don't see how this whole thing was an accident and I want murder charges," Grace said.

Greg Malcolm, a detective with the Cottage Grove Police Department, which investigated the infant's death, said he believed the child's death was accidental.

"I sincerely don't believe that she had any intent to cause harm to her child on this evening," Malcolm said. "By all other accounts, she's been a productive mom, a good mom. She's done a decent job of raising her children. She, unfortunately, was in the habit of sleeping with this particular child from the day it came home from the hospital."

Medrano's sister, Maria Phillips, told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune her sister had watched Grace's show about the baby's death. Afterward, she was "shaking and couldn't take a breath," Phillips said.

Medrano's husband, Jason Medrano, told the St. Paul Pioneer Press that the show, as well as the Internet comments that followed it, were cruel.

"The things people said were horrible," he told the newspaper. "It shows that cyberbullying happens to adults, too."

Speaking with Fox 9 News, Medrano's mother, Yvonne Hill, said her daughter fell into a depression.

"She was trying to build and get by and live with what happened," Hill said. "When she saw that, it broke her spirit in the worst way."

Chief Monahan told The Huffington Post his agency is still investigating what prompted Medrano's alleged suicide. Asked if her child's death being featured on national television may have played a role, Michael responded, "It very well could [have]."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/11/toni-medrano-vodka-mom_n_1665792.html


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Re: Toni Medrano, Dubbed 'Vodka Mom' By Nancy Grace, Committed Suicide, Police Say [Re: Simplepowa]
    #16540226 - 07/16/12 03:44 PM (11 years, 8 months ago)

Nancy Grace is such a vile twat. I would mind watching her get raped.

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Re: Toni Medrano, Dubbed 'Vodka Mom' By Nancy Grace, Committed Suicide, Police Say [Re: Simplepowa] * 4
    #16540241 - 07/16/12 03:46 PM (11 years, 8 months ago)

Wonder what vodka mom thought about pot smoking moms before she killed her baby?


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InvisibleSimplepowa
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Re: Toni Medrano, Dubbed 'Vodka Mom' By Nancy Grace, Committed Suicide, Police Say [Re: SCleROTiUM_LICK]
    #16540249 - 07/16/12 03:48 PM (11 years, 8 months ago)

Quote:

SCleROTiUM_LICK said:
Wonder what vodka mom thought about pot smoking moms before she killed her baby?




:ilold:

nice reference to that other msn article hahaha


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Carl Sagan - "Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

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Robert Pirsig - "When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion."

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Brian Cox - "[One] problem with today’s world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opinion AND have others listen to it. The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense."

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Re: Toni Medrano, Dubbed 'Vodka Mom' By Nancy Grace, Committed Suicide, Police Say [Re: Simplepowa]
    #16540592 - 07/16/12 04:57 PM (11 years, 8 months ago)

Damn, this poor woman.


she should've known to not sleep with her kid but calling her a murderer?

nancy grace can suck a dick. just not mine


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Re: Toni Medrano, Dubbed 'Vodka Mom' By Nancy Grace, Committed Suicide, Police Say [Re: NWlight]
    #16540810 - 07/16/12 05:46 PM (11 years, 8 months ago)

Am I sorry she chose suicide?
Yes.
Am I sorry her life became a living hell after her own gross negligence killed her child and Nancy Grace said mean things to her?
Not really.


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