Add another charge
Hamilton County Municipal Judge Nadine Allen was faced with a suspect arrested Saturday on traffic and crack possession charges while in her car with a 2-year-old in the back seat. Why, asked the judge, wasn’t she charged with child-endangering as well?
Good question.
I think child-endangering ought to be an automatic add-on charge anytime somebody is arrested on DUI or a drug use charge with a kid present. Even if such a charge ultimately wouldn’t add extra time to a sentence, the point should be made that such behavior isn’t just a danger to the person being arrested.
posted by David Wells at 12:17 PM
1 Comments:
at 5:35 PM, May 16, 2007 
Ray Cooklis said...
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Post a Comment*Here's the kicker: If this had taken place in Kentucky, it's possible the driver could have faced such an additional charge. In 2005, the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that a multiple DUI offender who tried to elude police while driving drunk could be charged with wanton endangerment because he had his 10-year-old son in the truck. The ruling appeared to leave open the possibility that the charge could be added to other offenses, such as drug use, and in cases where adult passengers and bystanders might be endangered. And even in Ohio, it's possible to add child endangering charges in DUI cases.
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