Flight attendant pleads guilt to assaulting baby DETROIT (AP) =97 A former Northwest Airlines fight attendant pleaded guilty= =20 Monday to assaulting a 19-month-old baby by placing a prescription=20 depressant in a cup of apple juice he gave the child to stop her crying,=20 federal officials announced. Daniel Cunningham, 39, of Ann Arbor was=20 charged with assaulting an individual under the age of 16, distributing a=20 controlled substance aboard an aircraft and importing a controlled=20 substance, U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Collins said in a statement. The incident= =20 occurred on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit in August. Cunningham=20 pleaded guilty to all three counts in Federal District Court on Monday,=20 according to the statement. The assault count carries a maximum penalty of= =20 one year imprisonment and a $100,000 fine. The distribution and importation= =20 charges each carry a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000= =20 fine. The Oakland County girl's mother, Beate Turner, took the juice off the=20 flight after noticing that it was bitter and foamy and had blue and white=20 specks floating in it. The girl drank some of the juice, but suffered no=20 serious injury. Ten days after the flight, Turner took the juice to=20 University Laboratories in Novi, which confirmed the presence of Xanax, a=20 prescription medication used to treat panic attacks and anxiety, the FBI=20 has said. The drug's side effects include drowsiness, fatigue and=20 lightheadedness. A Northwest spokeswoman confirmed Cunningham was hired in= =20 1998 and worked for the airline until Dec. 30. She said she could not=20 discuss the case further. *************************************************** The owner of Roger's Trinbago Site/TnTisland.com Roj (Roger James) escape email mailto:ejames@xxxxxxxxx Trinbago site: www.tntisland.com Carib Brass Ctn site www.tntisland.com/caribbeanbrassconnection/ Steel Expressions www.mts.net/~ejames/se/ Site of the Week: http://www.cso.gov.tt TnT Webdirectory: http://search.co.tt *********************************************************