MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) – A woman has been acquitted on charges of breastfeeding her infant daughter within 24 hours of snorting cocaine.

Lisa Ireland, 37, had been charged with endangering the welfare of a child.

The child’s father took the 11-month-old baby to the hospital in January and reported Ireland had been using cocaine and was breastfeeding.

Last week, District Court Judge William Lyons barred blood test results that allegedly showed cocaine in the mother’s system. Lyons found Ireland innocent.

Defense lawyers argued that the child’s father smoked crack-cocaine in the baby’s presence, and that would account for any trace amounts in the child’s system.