A Durango woman was sentenced to three years probation Tuesday upon entering a guilty plea to child abuse after injuring her baby in a crash while driving intoxicated.

Lorrena Ann Yazzie, 27, was tried in federal court because she is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation and the accident occurred on the Navajo Indian Reservation.

The charges stemmed from a single-vehicle rollover south of Shiprock, New Mexico, on April 2, 2014.

“She had three young children in the vehicle, all hers,” said Elizabeth A. Martinez, the public-affairs officer for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Mexico.

Yazzie’s blood-alcohol level was measured at 0.238, almost three times the legal limit, after the accident.

Her 3-week-old son was taken to San Juan Regional Medical Center with a severe head injury and was airlifted to the New Mexico Children’s Hospital in Albuquerque. He was listed in stable condition two days later after physicians determined he had a skull fracture and a small amount of bleeding around his brain. The other two children were not seriously injured.

Because the children are minors, the U.S. Attorney’s Office did not release their names.

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