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Man received suspended prison sentence for letting his 6-year-old son drive a car
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The court of Kiskőrös sentenced a man who let his 6-year-old son drive his car on two occasions during the spring and broadcasted it on the internet to suspended prison.
According to atv.hu, he received one year in prison suspended for two years because of child endangerment. In their final ruling, the court of Kiskőrös said on Friday that the 37-year-old man allowed his kid to drive his car twice in March and April of 2020 in Csengőd. The child was driving the vehicle equipped with an automatic transmission while the man sat in the passenger seat and broadcasted the events on the internet. The little boy
drove almost two kilometres on traffic-free road sections.
The public prosecutor said that the father of the child endangered his son’s physical and moral development. Furthermore, he did not meet his obligations to take care of his son.
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The court deemed the man guilty before and gave him a one-year-long prison sentence suspended for two years, forbidding him to drive for one year. However, the man did not accept the sentence, and he asked for a new court trial. Now, the court of Kiskőrös sustained the previous sentence, so it is legally binding.
We wrote HERE about the sad story of András (Andrew Tóth) who
spent 20 years in an American prison even though he was innocent.
Firstly, he was sentenced to death for murdering an Irish worker in the J. Edgar Thomson Steel Works; however, some people regarded the sentencing too harsh, and among them was Andrew Carnegie, the CEO of the company where the murder happened.