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Too Drunk – Alaska Mom Lets 7-Year-Old Drive
What happens if you let your seven-year-old drive you home because you’re too wasted? Well worse case scenario, you, your child or an innocent victim loses life or limb. Best case? You get 20 days in jail.
Karen Koch was sentenced – in Fairbanks, Alaska – to 20 days in jail, three years of probation and also she must go to six months of Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. The mom was arrested after letting her kid drive the car while she was passed out drunk in the passenger seat. But this was no one time thing, she has already had three drunk driving convictions so instead of adding a fourth incident she had to young son do the driving.
Do you think she got off easy?
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[...] rash of recent stories of kids allowed behind the wheel – either for a joke or by drunk parents – have earned a lot of clucking and head-shaking but overall little cause for real [...]
13-Year-Old Driver Runs Down Dad | Strollerderby commented on Aug 20 09 at 2:01 pmSue commented on Aug 06 09 at 2:20 pmComments I couldnt believe what I was reading. I suppose ‘wasted’ takes on new meaning’. I have read confessions from moms on truuconfessions.com and it makes me wonder if this has happened more than we really hear about.
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