PAW PAW — A woman is asking that a district judge in Van Buren County be reprimanded after he admonished her last week for breastfeeding her son in his courtroom, according to reports in the Detroit Free Press and the Huffington Post.

Natalie Hegedus, a resident of Van Buren County, said the Nov. 8 incident left her humiliated. She said the courtroom bailiff noticed her breastfeeding her son and passed a note to Judge Robert T. Hentchel.

Hentchel then called Hedgedus to the bench and asked her if she thought breastfeeding in the his courtroom was appropriate.

"I said, 'Considering the fact that my son is hungry, and he's sick, and the fact that it's not illegal, I don't find it inappropriate,'" she said in the Free Press report. "And the judge said something to the effect of 'It's my court, it's my decision and I do find it inappropriate.'"

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