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December 5, 2019, 5:58 PM UTC

N.J. Attorney Suspended for Assaulting Daughter While Drunk

Melissa Heelan Stanzione
Melissa Heelan Stanzione
Reporter

A New Jersey attorney who assaulted her infant daughter in 2012 while drunk was suspended for one year by the state’s highest court.

The Supreme Court of New Jersey affirmed the sanction recommended by its disciplinary review board, which determined that “the horror of a mother, intoxicated or not, brutally attacking her newborn baby cannot be met with a short-term suspension.”

Ania Marcinkiewicz fractured her eight-week-old daughter’s skull causing bleeding in her brain during an “alcohol-induced blackout,” the review board’s opinion said.

Marcinkiewicz admitted to being an “angry drunk,” it said.

She pleaded guilty to third-degree aggravated assault and third-degree ...

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