Suicide Rate Running High in Parish

Published June 10, 2010

Mother who fed infant son cocaine identified
Tamara Broomfield was 20 when her son Malique was born, and had no prior criminal record or history of drug addiction. Yet for more than a year, the single mother regularly gave her infant son cocaine — so much that tests later determined it was enough to classify him as a heavy user if he was an adult and left him permanently brain damaged.