A suburban woman who gave her 9-year-old granddaughter two glasses of gin so the woman could go out to celebrate her 47th birthday was sentenced Thursday to 30 days of electronic home monitoring, with 335 days in prison stayed for two years.

Joanne DeLoach, convicted of child endangerment, had hoped the girl would pass out so she could leave the Bloomington apartment for the night instead of continuing to babysit the child, police said. The incident occurred Aug. 31, and the girl's mother was working a 12-hour shift, police said.

The girl told Bloomington officers that after drinking the gin she vomited, hit her head and blacked out. When the girl's mother returned home about 7:30 p.m., the girl was home alone on the couch, police Cmdr. Jim Ryan said.

A portable breath test showed she had a blood-alcohol level of 0.042 percent more than eight hours after drinking the gin.

....What a piece of work this woman is.....