Prosecutors charged Shannon Denney, 32, with outraging public decency and public morals,punishable by up to a year in jail and a $500 fine.
Denney, whose own child attended the daycare center, apparently decided to help out one day in late November or early December by breast-feeding a 3-month-old girl, authorities said.
"The baby was crying and they were feeding it a bottle and that didn't stop it," prosecutor Ron Boyer said.
The mother found out months later when a rumor circulated around the town of 2,500, he said.
"It got back to the mother," Boyer said. "The mother confronted the woman and asked her about it and she admitted that it happened."
After the alleged incident, Denney bought the daycare center, but she has since closed it. She did not immediately return a call Tuesday.
The state Department of Human Services, which licenses daycare centers, has no policy on breast-feeding someone else's child.
"It's a commonsense sort of thing," department spokesman George Johnson said. "It's something that today you don't even think about."
Viruses can be transmitted through breast milk.
SFGate June 3{zombie morality. with a teensy edge of medical substance, far outweighed by the inhuman cowardice that drives it. a case could be made that it's human motherhood that's been attacked here, not defended. this woman has lost her livelihood. there are bacteria in the dirt, viruses in the air and water, these same people will hold a baby in their arms and stand next to the back of a running car and simultaneously,scornfully and sneeringly demand a 'smoker' cease and desist. thus we have children raised terrified of cigarette smoke who will, as their big sisters do already around these parts, go literally 90 mph, driving one-handed talking on a cell phone. cute zombies, with morals, sort of, in a way. viruses can be spread through contact with doorknobs, through breathing communal air, through eating food handled by carriers, through swimming in water...but then that's it. poison the water until nothing can live in it for very long and you'll feel better. you won't be, but you'll FEEL safer.
what we lose in these spasms of fear and cowardice we don't regain in security.}
