Breastfeeding Mother Uses Online Petition To Dodge Jail Time

Inquisitr - A breastfeeding Nevada woman won't be doing jail time for a crime she admitted to committing, and it's all because she's nursing. Kristen Fleming of Las Vegas was able to dodge jail time for domestic violence because she's a breastfeeding mother, and because she created an online campaign to gather signatures begging for clemency. Before the Change.org campaign was closed, she'd gathered nearly 2,000 signatures.Breastfeeding mother avoids jail time after starting online petition https://t.co/lB3Xyv9HkD pic.twitter.com/eFbbQzl0ue ? KFOR (@kfor) April 8, 2016 As Fox 13 Now reports, the campaign contributed to a judge's decision to reverse her jail sentence on Monday so that she could continue to exclusively breastfeed her six-month-old twins. The breastfeeding mother's apparent success in avoiding jail time has created a lot of controversy, with some calling the judge's decision a sexist double standard. Here's how it went down. In January 2015, Fleming got into an altercation with her