Jennifer Johnson, a young Black woman in Florida, is convicted of "delivering a controlled substance to a minor."

This is the first time where a prosecutor attempts to charge a woman for trafficking a controlled substance to her newborn infant and her older child. Since drug laws in Florida don't apply to fetuses at this time, the prosecutor argues that Johnson had delivered cocaine to her children after their births through the attached umbilical cord in the seconds before it was cut.

The judge sentences Johnson to a year at a residential drug program and fourteen years of probation, with a prison sentence awaiting her if she does not successfully complete the treatment and probation. She is required to undergo random drug testing, and to report to the court if she becomes pregnant again.