So here it is.........
Drunk woman let 7-year-old son drive
A woman who let her 7-year-old son drive while she was passed out drunk in the passenger seat has been sentenced to 20 days in jail, completing a recent trifecta of stories about 7-year-old boys driving cars.
District Court Judge Raymond Funk also sentenced 37-year-old Karen Koch to three years of probation and six months of Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports Koch pleaded guilty to one count of reckless endangerment in exchange for prosecutors dropping a charge of allowing an unauthorized person to drive.
She has three previous convictions for drunken driving and did not speak at Wednesday's court hearing.
A neighbor called troopers in May after seeing a young boy driving a car with a passenger passed out.
The news comes in the same week when authorities investigated a father in Canada after he posted a video on YouTube of his 7-year-old son driving the family car along a country road, and the week after a 7-year-old boy drove off in his father's car in a bid to avoid church.
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