One of the strangest criminal cases in Chester County history has come to a resolution when a mom agreed to a plea deal on charges she allowed her 6-year-old daughter to drive her SUV.From a story by Michael Rellahan:
WEST CHESTER — The woman who police said let her 6-year-old daughter drive her SUV pleaded guilty Monday.Read the full story here.
Lakisha Hogue, 31, of Coatesville, entered a plea to misdemeanor charges of endangering the welfare of a child. As part of a deal between her attorney and the prosecution, Judge Anthony Sarcione sentenced her to three years of probation and ordered her to undergo substance abuse and psychological evaluations and comply with all recommended treatment.
The circumstances surrounding her arrest made headlines across the region. In her plea agreement, she admitted letting her daughter sit in the front driver's seat of her SUV as it was "moving slowly in the travel lane of Walnut Street" in Coatesville on the afternoon of Sept. 6.
"When a police officer approached the driver's side of the vehicle, which had bucket seats, the transmission was in park, the child was behind the steering wheel, and (Hogue) was seated in the passenger seat," the plea document reads.
It was unclear whether the car's engine had been running prior to police spotting it. It had not gone a significant distance from when police first saw the car to when they took Hogue into custody.
Initially, authorities indicated that Hogue had forced her daughter to drive the car because she was too intoxicated at the time. Hogue reportedly laughed about the incident and said she was teaching her daughter to drive, police said. The arresting officer said Hogue had bloodshot, glassy eyes and appeared "very nonchalant about the whole situation."
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