Teen sentenced to attend church as part of probation for DUI manslaughter conviction

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MUSKOGEE - Attending church on Sunday for 10 years was one of the conditions a Muskogee County judge placed on a teenager whose sentence in a manslaughter case was deferred this week for 10 years.


Defense attorney Donn Baker said that although the church requirement is unusual, it is not something he intends to challenge.

"My client goes to church every Sunday," Baker said. "That isn't going to be a problem for him. We certainly want the probation for him."

The defendant, Tyler Alred, 17, was behind the wheel of a Chevrolet pickup about 4 a.m. Dec. 3 when he crashed into a tree on a county road east of Muskogee. His friend and passenger John Luke Dum, 16, of Muskogee died at the scene.

Alred, a high school and welding school student, admitted to Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers that he had been drinking, records show.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=14&articleid=20121115_12_A11_CUTLIN265206 more

[sasha031]

1. sounds like he needs to be sentenced to a treatment facility

[liberal_at_heart]

2. He was already attending church, gets into a crash that kills his friends, and

is ordered to go to church. Sounds like going to church already wasn't working.

[Egalitarian Thug]

3. Are you sure that some dimwit down at Tulsaworld didn't just stumble across an Onion article

and fail to notice? C'mon, 10 years of attending church for an Okie from Muskogee who killed his friend, Dum?

Somebody's pulling somebody's leg...

[Journeyman]

4. Hmm - I hope it helps, though I have my doubts. . .

Many an AA member finds themselves in church basement meetings seeking help for addictions that arose from trauma suffered in church buildings.

I wish Tyler peace and strength. He'll need both, since he'll carry his friend John the rest of his life.

[cthulu2016]

5. Wow... nothing unconstitutional about that