A New Mexico father is in trouble for giving his daughter a driving lesson. Police in Albuquerque say the problem was that dad was drunk and his daughter is only 11. Officers responding to a compliant about a car that had jumped a curb and hit a fence say Eufemio Torres smelled of alcohol and couldn't finish a roadside sobriety test. Two other young children were in the car as well, but nobody was seriously hurt.
Torres is now in prison on a felony child abuse charge.
Officer Tyrone Chambers says he wasn't showing very good parenting skills. But it's cost New Jersey taxpayers a bit more than that to keep him in prison. A taxpayers' advocacy group and civil libertarians are in an uproar. For 58 cents it seems kind of crazy to prosecute him and use this kind of massive expenditure to incarcerate this man. Michael Monroe allegedly reached through the already open window of David Laman's parked car to grab the change.